black-collar
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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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.
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Relating to creative work.
— black-collar worker
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Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
— 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.
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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.
词源
From black market and -collar.
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