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private sector

noun as in for-profit businesses

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You have one person in the private sector who’s not elected by anyone who can effectively decide whether someone can speak.

Instead, we are falling between two stools, with the public sector forgoing its broader societal function and the private sector only beginning to assume the mantle.

From Time

We’re conditioned to think of the government and private sectors as antagonistic forces within the economy, with opposing motives.

From Ozy

The local government is also pushing the private sector to do its part, starting with the thriving but ecologically harmful fashion industry.

From Time

He left politics in 2009 after being marginalized by the chancellor and moved into the private sector, becoming a multimillionaire as he rose to the rank of chairman of investment management firm BlackRock Germany.

From Time

In some cases, public employee unions even pushed private sector unions to endorse Republicans.

Turkey is not the only country trying to convince the private sector that domestic violence is their problem, too.

Joel Klein hates monopolies, but he really loves the private sector.

Today, private sector unionized workers are not even ten percent of the work force.

The partnership includes five UN agencies led by UNICEF, the U.S. government and the private sector.

We observe that in the private sector, the vulnerability of information systems is real and is being exploited.

We think that this "hacking," writ large in the private sector, must be assumed as part of the defense problem.

The Federal Government imposes a huge paperwork burden on business, local government, and the private sector.

This could herald a new role for the American private sector in helping solve the world's serious food shortages.

Now I challenge every state--turn those welfare checks into private sector paychecks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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