private sector 
noun
The part of the national economy that is not under direct state control: the government had hoped to make the private sector take over nuclear power stations [as modifier]: private sector practices...
- This is because they are so widespread and deeply ingrained in both the public and private sectors of the economy.
- Some see it as an ominous sign of things to come in the relationship between the public and private sectors in economic policy.
- Graduate students of the school were employed both in the public and private sectors of the economy.
- driveshaft
- drive someone to drink
- drive someone up the wall
- drive something home
- drive system
- drive-through
- drive time
- drivetrain
- driveway
- driving
- driving licence
- driving range
- driving school
- driving test
- driving wheel
- drizzle
- drizzly
- DRM
- Dr Martens
- Drogheda
- drogue
- drogue parachute
- droid
- droit
- droit de seigneur