BUSINESS SECTOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Business concerns collectively

Example:

Government and business could not agree

Synonyms:

business; business sector

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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)