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{
"term": "sector",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/ci/circles.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a part of an area of activity, especially of a country’s economy",
"sensetop": "in a sector",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **service/banking/manufacturing/financial sector**"
},
{
"text": "jobs in the agricultural sector",
"contextForm": "in a sector"
},
{
"text": "She works in the **voluntary sector** *(= organizations that do not make a profit)*."
},
{
"text": "We have seen rapid growth in the **services sector**."
},
{
"text": "the privileged sectors of society"
},
{
"text": "The survey covers a wide range of industry sectors."
},
{
"text": "the chronic underfunding of the education sector"
},
{
"text": "Increased state investment will lead to more job opportunities in the manufacturing sector."
},
{
"text": "The largest growth has been in the service sector."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["important", "key", "growing"],
"preposition": ["in a/the sector"],
"phrases": [
"a sector of the economy",
"a sector of the industry",
"a sector of the market"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a part of a particular area, especially an area under military control",
"sensetop": "in a sector",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "each sector of the war zone"
},
{
"text": "The partition of the city meant that members of the same family were living in different sectors.",
"contextForm": "in a sector"
},
{
"text": "Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war."
},
{
"text": "Most of the gas will come from the Norwegian sector of the North Sea."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["rural", "urban", "northern"],
"verb + sector": ["divide something into"],
"phrases": [
"a sector of the city",
"a sector of society",
"a sector of the population"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a part of a circle lying between two straight lines drawn from the centre to the edge",
"labels": "(geometry)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsektə(r)/",
"audio": "se/sector/sector__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsektər/",
"audio": "se/sector/sector__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from late Latin, a technical use of Latin sector ‘cutter’, from sect- ‘cut off’, from the verb secare."
}