black-collar

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to employment in the black market

   Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Relating to creative work.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Relating to coalminers and oil workers.

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   1. 4

      Relating to the clergy.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

• neighborblack market
• neighborNot to be confused with black-coated