EGAVE

sector

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 43.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A section. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. noun In the schedule for an aircraft and its crew, the period starting with preparation of the plane before loading at one airport and ending with deplaning at the next.
  3. noun A zone; a designated area. An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible. One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier. a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes. A community or subculture within the wider intermicronational community.
  4. noun An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
  5. noun One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
  6. noun a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
  7. noun A community or subculture within the wider intermicronational community.
  8. noun Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.

Similar words

sphere sectoral subsector division segment section part component category class

Often followed by

of and in is to has was as are

Word family

sectoral sectored sectoring sectors

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