subsector

Part within part

A subsector is a division within a larger sector.

The term appears most often in economic and military contexts: the banking subsector of the financial sector, troops assigned to the northern subsector.

Any sector can be subdivided into subsectors, which may themselves contain further divisions.

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industry

Economic production sector

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division

Splitting into parts

component · part · unit · segment · slice · chunk · piece · block · area · zone

specialization

focus

Concentrated attention point

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Distinct division of whole

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