white-collar crimenoun [ C or U ]
ukusLAW, WORKPLACEcrime in which an office worker or someone in business illegally takes money from their employer or the people they deal with in their business:
A state employee was charged with the white-collar crime of taking bribes to steer lucrative contracts to favored companies.
He spent 16 years trying cases involving bank fraud, mortgage fraud, investment fraud and other white-collar crimes.