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private sector

NOUN
for-profit businesses
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The Election Security Group does this through detailed information-sharing across agencies and with local officials and the private sector.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

Ruslan says there are other advantages to getting the private sector involved – "we can scale much faster than the public sector".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Those schemes became expensive for employers to sustain as life expectancy improved, and they all but died out in the private sector in the 2000s.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Meanwhile, private sector demand for borrowing remains weak, so ANZ maintains its view that aggregate financing will slow by end-2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

He’d carried the load admirably, inspiring people like Barack and Valerie to move out of the private sector and into community work and public service.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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