English-Portuguese translations for sector

• setor
• ramo
  O ramo dos serviços é um domínio das mulheres.The service sector is a women's domain.
  As telecomunicações e os meios de comunicação social não são ramos assolados pela crise, antes constituem um sector em expansão. Telecommunications and media are not crisis-ridden industries; they are an expanding sector.
  As senhoras deputadas Fraga Estévez e Miguélez Ramos mencionaram que a proposta da Comissão foi rejeitada pelo sector.Mrs Fraga Estévez and Mrs Miguélez Ramos mentioned that the Commission proposal was rejected by the sector.

Definition of sector

• section
• part of a circle, extending to the center
• an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
• a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes
• a field of economic activity
• A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle

Examples

• public sector;  private sector

Related words

• bisector
• dissector
• sectoral
• extrasectorial
• multisectoral
• sectorial
• prosector
• sectorally
• trisector