Usually means: Area of economic or commercial activity.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word SECTOR:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sector: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sector: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sector: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sector, sector: Wordnik
  7. sector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sector: Wiktionary
  9. sector: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sector: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sector: Dictionary.com
  13. sector: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sector: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sector (Rwanda), Sector (country subdivision), Sector (economic), Sector (economics), Sector (instrument), Sector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sector: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sector: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sector: Rhymezone
  19. sector, sector, sector (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sector: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sector: Free Dictionary
  22. sector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sector: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. sector: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Sector: bizterms.net
  5. Sector: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Sector: Moneyterms
  7. Sector: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. sector: Finance-Glossary.com
  9. Sector: Investopedia
  10. sector: Legal dictionary
  11. Sector: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sector: CCI Computer
  2. sector: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Sector: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. sector: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sector: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SECTOR: Acronym Finder
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Sector: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. sector: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sector, sector: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See sectored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sector)

noun:  A section.
noun:  A zone; a designated area.
noun:  (military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
noun:  (military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
noun:  (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
noun:  (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
noun:  (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.
noun:  (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
noun:  A field of economic activity.
noun:  (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
noun:  (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
noun:  (climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes

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