{
    "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."
}