WordNet
n. business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business]
Wikipedia
In economics, the business sector or corporate sector is "the part of the economy made up by companies". It is a subset of the domestic economy, excluding the economic activities of general government, of private households, and of non-profit organizations serving individuals. An alternative analysis of economies, the three-sector theory, subdivides them into:
- the primary sector (raw materials)
- the secondary sector (manufacturing)
- the tertiary sector (sales and services)
In the United States the business sector accounted for about 78 percent of the value of gross domestic product (GDP) .
Usage examples of "business sector".
That's one of the reasons why you quite commonly find the business sector reasonably willing, often happy to support efforts to overcome racism and sexism.
In Thailand, it works out, military officers can work in the business sector, run banks, own hotels, or serve in government.
Which meant that their destination was somewhere within the business sector of the city and not one of the outlying villas.
One of the biggest ones is the Bradley Foundation, which is devoted to trying to narrow still further the ideological spectrum that shifted to the right in the schools and colleges and the ideological institutions generally in the 1980s, in part as a result of dedicated ideological warfare by the business sector.
He was Daijin, Chief Minister of MITI, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the controlling and coordinating body for all of Japan's export policies for which Nangi himself had worked many years ago before 'retiring' from the bureaucracy into the business sector.