Meaning of black-collar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
   not-comparable, rare
2. Relating to creative work.
   not-comparable, slang
3. Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
   not-comparable
4. Relating to the clergy.
   not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Rewards necessarily drop for the former — not only because their numbers increase⟳ relatively but also because their output per man-hour does not rise⟳ as rapidly as that of the black-collar worker.”

“What attitudes, types of ideas and particular experiences would lead⟳ a "blue collar worker" to perceive the evidence of the defendant's guilt differently than a white, pink or black collar worker?”

“Why can't we pass⟳ a law whereby every white/blue/black-collar worker with children pay⟳ into a fund about P20.00 a week from his pay⟳.”

“black-collar worker”

“In Helsinki, the inner-city workers' housing which was once uniformly red, now occupied by ‘black-collar’ workers—creative industry types who wear⟳ a T-shirt to work⟳—votes solidly green.”

“Even if you add⟳ to this the 4200 jobs created each year by the energy-efficiency measures for which the Rudd government claims credit, it is completely negated by the ‘black-collar’ jobs being added as Queensland and New South Wales expand⟳ coal exports.”

“This is scarcely the first crisis involving what an Australian victims' group, Broken Rites, has termed black-collar crime. But never before has a scandal cast⟳ doubts on the judgment and authority of a pope.”

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