sector

secteur

Partie d’une zone ou d’un système plus vaste, notamment un domaine d’activité économique.

En anglais simple : One part of a larger area or system, especially an area of business activity.

• The service sector employs many people.
• Soldiers searched the northern sector.
• This sector of the economy is growing.

Comment l'utiliser : a sector of something (This sector of the city has many factories.)

Synonymes : part, division, section

Expressions courantes : service sector, northern sector, sector of something, public sector