Public sector

Synonyms for "public sector" (22 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Adjective(2 words)
civic servicegovernment services sector
Noun(3 words)
economic sectorgovernment institutiongovernment sector

Strong matches (6)

Adjective(1 words)
government workforce
Noun(5 words)
government-fundedgovernment-runmore governmentalmore nonmarketpublic organization

Related words (11)

Noun(10 words)
public service sectorpublic servicespublicly administeredpublicly fundedsectoralstate agencystate sectorstate-operatedstate-ownedtaxpayer-supported
Adjective(1 words)
public system

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

7 entries
economic sectorgovernancegovernance domaininstitutionorganizationpolicy analysispublic administration

More specific

8 entries
defense sectoreducation sectorhealth sectorhealthcare sectorhospitalinfrastructure sectorpublic utilityschool

Collocations

11 entries
public sector budgetpublic sector employmentpublic sector fundingpublic sector reformpublic sector servicespublic-sector contractspublic-sector datapublic-sector fundingpublic-sector jobspublic-sector partnershippublic-sector reform

Inflections

3 entries
more public-sectormost public-sectorpublic sectors

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

Source: wiktionary

Worth said: "We have distribution companies wanting to decarbonise. We have freight hauliers wanting to invest in electric locomotives. All we need to make that happen is the public sector's contribution. […]"

Source: wiktionary