industry sectors
Business activity categories
Industry sectors are broad categories that classify businesses and economic activity by their primary function or product type.
Common sectors include technology, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail, and energy.
Analysts, investors, and policymakers use these divisions to track economic performance and compare companies: The technology sector outperformed all other industry sectors this quarter.
Also called economic sectors or simply sectors.
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- constructionProcess of building something
- entertainmentAgreeable diversion of attention
- chemical processingAltering substances through reactions
- education servicesSystems delivering formal learning
biotechnology · manufacturing · renewable resources · green energy · retail · supply chain · research and development · hospitality · textile production · semiconductor · forestry · fishing · pharmaceuticals · factory · blue collar · water management · financial services · real estate
industry sectorshousehold economy
Family resource management
domestic sphere · public sector · nonprofit sector · government services · government agencies
industry sectorsblack market
Illicit trading system
shadow economy · underground economy · grey market · barter economy · gig work