| 单词 | white-collar |
| 释义 | white-collar (once / 9899 pages) adj WORD FAMILY white-collar USAGE EXAMPLESWhite-collar professionals often hold second or third jobs driving taxis or tending bar to supplement their governmental income. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) As we look ahead to 2017, here are a few areas in the uncertain world of white-collar crime that will be of interest: New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Though avid users of social media, white-collar professionals seldom respond collectively to government missteps or social problems. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) adj of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper Syn|Ant skilled having or showing or requiring special skill clericalappropriate for or engaged in office work professionalengaged in by members of a profession pink-collarof or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women blue-collar of or designating manual industrial work or workers unskillednot having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency industrialemployed in industry manualdoing or requiring physical work wage-earning, working-classworking for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries |
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