The sector of the economy concerned with or relating to secondary industry.
〔经济〕第二产业部门
Example sentencesExamples
There has been a perception in society that the primary sector is of less worth or value than the secondary sector.
Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits.
The primary sector employs 22 percent of workers, the secondary sector 28 percent, and the tertiary sector 50 percent.
Changes are needed to provide professional leadership and economic incentives in both primary and secondary sectors.
The revisions exposed a more pronounced primary sector contraction while the secondary sector benefited from higher than estimated growth in meat processing.
Fish processing on land decreased but the rest of the sub-sectors in the secondary sector grew.
Definition of secondary sector in US English:
secondary sector
noun
Economics
The sector of the economy concerned with or relating to primary industry.
〔经济〕第二产业部门
Example sentencesExamples
Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits.
Fish processing on land decreased but the rest of the sub-sectors in the secondary sector grew.
The revisions exposed a more pronounced primary sector contraction while the secondary sector benefited from higher than estimated growth in meat processing.
The primary sector employs 22 percent of workers, the secondary sector 28 percent, and the tertiary sector 50 percent.
There has been a perception in society that the primary sector is of less worth or value than the secondary sector.
Changes are needed to provide professional leadership and economic incentives in both primary and secondary sectors.