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单词 white-collar
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white-collar

also white collar
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
White-collar workers work in offices rather than doing physical work such as making things in factories or building things.
White-collar workers now work longer hours.
Synonyms: clerical, office, executive, professional More Synonyms of white-collar
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
White-collar crime is committed by people who work in offices, and involves stealing money secretly from companies or the government, or getting money in an illegal way.

white-collar in British English

adjective
of, relating to, or designating nonmanual and usually salaried workers employed in professional and clerical occupations
white-collar union
Compare blue-collar, pink-collar

white-collar in American English

(hwaɪtˈkɑlər; waɪtˈkɑlər)
adjective
US
designating or of clerical or professional workers or others employed in work notessentially manual
Word origin
from the formerly typical white shirts worn by such workers

Examples of 'white-collar' in a sentence
white-collar

There is no qualitative difference between white-collar crime and any other sort of crime.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The tide may have gone out elsewhere but white-collar crime is on a roll.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet the blow to white-collar workers remained substantially less significant than this time around.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Many of those who have since lost their jobs are white-collar workers who have seen their lifestyles ruined.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Throughout the twentieth century all major industrial societies have undergone major technological changes that have greatly expanded the number of white-collar jobs available.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
It used to be that only a small proportion of the population had white-collar Jobs.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Isn't it about time a government made the theft of intellectual property a white-collar crime?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He will work across the fields of white-collar crime, serious organised crime and regulatory cases.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They are becoming a burning issue for white-collar workers, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But white-collar workers shared styles of dress and values with middle-class people.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
The US is pursuing white-collar crime with zeal.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
FORGET legal aid: criminal silks are rushing to focus on white-collar crime and fraud.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

In other languages
white-collar

British English: white-collar ADJECTIVE
White-collar workers work in offices rather than doing physical work such as making things in factories or building things.
White-collar workers now work longer hours.
  • American English: white-collar
  • Brazilian Portuguese: de colarinho branco
  • Chinese: 白领的
  • European Spanish: de oficina
  • French: de bureauN
  • German: Büro-
  • Italian: impiegatizio
  • Japanese: 頭脳労働の
  • Korean: 사무직의
  • European Portuguese: de colarinho branco
  • Latin American Spanish: de oficina
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