单词 | white-collar |
释义 | white-collarˌwhite-ˈcollar adjective ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthe middle class► middle-class Collocations belonging to the class of people who are usually well educated, fairly rich, and who work in jobs which they have trained to do. For example, doctors, lawyers, and managers are middle-class: · The newspaper's readers are mostly middle class.· They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town. ► bourgeois typical of richer middle-class people and their attitudes or way of life, especially their concern with money, property, and correct social behaviour: · She rejected her parents' conventional bourgeois lifestyle.· They never married because they believed that marriage was a bourgeois institution. ► the bourgeoisie the class that owns most of the wealth, property, and industry - use this especially when you are talking about politics or history: · The poor viewed with envy the increasing wealth of the bourgeoisie.· A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie. ► white-collar: white-collar worker/job/employee someone who works in an office, not a factory, mine etc: · The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs. WORD SETS► Employmentabsenteeism, nounarticled clerk, black economy, nounbloodletting, nounblue-collar, adjectivebook-keeper, nounboss, nounbusiness agent, career path, nouncareer structure, nounCFO, Chartered Financial Consultant, nounCIO, co-manager, nouncommercial agent, company car, nouncompany doctor, company officer, competence, nouncompliance officer, co-worker, nouncreative director, curriculum vitae, nounCV, noundeputy chairman, deskill, verbdismiss, verbdowngrade, verbdownsize, verbearn, verbearner, nounemploy, verbemployable, adjectiveemployee, nounemployer, nounemployment agency, nounengage, verbenrolled agent, escrow agent, executive chairman, filing clerk, fill-in, nounfull-time, adjectiveheadhunter, nounhealth and safety, nounhuman resources, nounjob application, job centre, nounjobless, adjectivelabour exchange, nounledger clerk, moonlight, verbnatural wastage, nounnepotism, nounnetworking, nounnine to five, adverbnumber-cruncher, nounoccupational, adjectiveoff, adverboff-duty, adjectiveoperative, nounoutwork, nounoverseer, nounoverstaffed, adjectivepenalty clause, nounpension fund, nounpension plan, nounpersonnel, nounpiecework, nounpositive discrimination, nounpost, nounpreferment, nounproject engineer, qualification, nounqualify, verbquit, verbrecommendation, nounrecruit, verbredeploy, verbredundancy, nounredundant, adjectivereferee, nounreference, nounreinstate, verbresearch manager, resign, verbresignation, nounresume, nounretired, adjectiveretiree, nounretirement, nounself-employed, adjectivesharecropper, nounshift, nounskilled, adjectivetechnical analyst, testimonial, nountime and motion study, nountrainee, nountransfer agent, underemployed, adjectiveundermanned, adjectiveunderstaffed, adjectiveunemployable, adjectiveunemployed, adjectiveunemployment, noununemployment benefit, noununskilled, adjectivevacancy, nounvacant, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworkday, nounwork experience, nounworkforce, nounworking papers, nounworkweek, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► crime Phrases· Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.· But white-collar crime seems to be the new image of the law profession.· Edwin Sutherland's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics. ► employee· Professionals and white-collar employees nowadays increasingly find their status and conditions under attack.· As more white-collar employees use computer terminals to perform their work, instantaneous feedback on performance will become commonplace.· The rich peasant was not a bourgeois, and neither was the white-collar employee. ► job· Only one, an insurance collector, had a white-collar job.· Doctors, lawyers, white-collar jobs these were what motivated the kids to attend and their parents to dream.· Many were in white-collar jobs, often in the public sector.· It is already in existence in a number of white-collar jobs.· Many other white-collar jobs, claims Braverman, are similarly fragmented.· They are now more likely to work in the service industries, in low-paid white-collar jobs.· The same can not be said at Ford, which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday's 1,180.· Proportionately, white-collar jobs are disappearing even faster, and still more of them are at risk. ► worker· A new study is replicating and extending the earlier work with a larger group of white-collar workers.· These categories include white-collar workers as well as blue-collar workers.· Braverman believes that as a consequence of the changes outlined above the skills required of most routine white-collar workers are now minimal.· Each was a weekend retreat for white-collar workers and gentry for purposes of education and uplift.· Hence there is less routine manual work to do and the relative proportion of white-collar workers within factories rises.· Its dynamic and smiling young white-collar workers are just as grotesque.· Others claim that routine white-collar workers still belong to the middle class.· Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► white-collar crime 1[only before noun] white-collar workers have jobs in offices, banks etc rather than jobs working in factories, building things etc → blue-collar, pink-collar:
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