| 单词 | green-collar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen-collar green-collar adj. [after blue-collar adj., white-collar adj.] (a) (originally) of or designating work involving plants or horticulture; (now chiefly) of or designating work relating to the protection or preservation of the environment; (b) of or designating (corporate) crime or fraud relating to the environment; cf. white-collar crime n. at white-collar n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 3 Ned Lockwood, a brawny forty-two-year-old who was practically the working model for the Green-collar Gay. 1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 13 Apr. There's too much ‘green-collar’ fraud in the marketplace. 1992 Sci. News 25 Jan. 50/2 An overview of the rise of environmentalism and environmental business and the increase in demand for ‘green-collar’ workers. 2004 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 95 133 (title of article) Sentencing the green-collar offender: punishment, culpability, and environmental crime. 2008 Observer 27 Apr. (Business & Media section) 3/2 The sector..could create thousands of ‘green collar’ jobs, as the environment industry expands. < as lemmas |
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