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white-collar

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white-collar
a white-collar worker is someone who works in an office, doing mental rather than physical work (always before noun) The ratio of white-collar workers to production workers in the American manufacturing industry was declining. The earnings of women in white-collar jobs are the second highest in Britain. The 1980's saw an explosion in white-collar crime. (= crimes committed by white-collar workers, especially stealing from the organization they work for)


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This legislation will help crack down on white-collar crime and increase justice for victims by providing tougher sentences for the criminals responsible.
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Some progress has been made in changing attitudes to investigating white-collar crime as closely as the more traditional criminality.
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