BUSINESS SECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does business sector mean? 

• BUSINESS SECTOR (noun)
  The noun BUSINESS SECTOR has 1 sense:

1. business concerns collectively

  Familiarity information: BUSINESS SECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESS SECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Business concerns collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

business; business sector

Context example:

Government and business could not agree

Hypernyms ("business sector" is a kind of...):

sector (a social group that forms part of the society or the economy)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

incorporate (form a corporation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "business sector"):

big business (commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies)