private sector

Definitions

All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Equivalents

Examples

“After spending two decades at various government agencies, he returned to the private sector and took a job as a business consultant.”

“Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have⟳ every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take⟳ jobs in the private sector.”

“After decades of observation, it's pretty obvious to me that all governments are uniformly useless at actually running anything, so we need⟳ to employ⟳ the private sector to do the job for us on properly specified contracts [...].”

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