black-collar

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English

Etymology

From black market and -collar.

Adjective

black-collar (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
    • 1946, The Ethical Outlook, page 270:
      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.
    • 1979, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:
      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?
    • 1991, Search ResultsBusiness Journal, volume 66, number 7, page 52:
      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. (slang) Relating to creative work.
    black-collar worker
    • 2012, Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond, editors, After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 176:
      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. Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
    • 2010, Robert Manne, David McKnight, editors, Goodbye to All That? , Black Inc., →ISBN, page 257:
      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.
  4. (rare) Relating to the clergy.
    • 2010 March 19, Riazat Butt, John Hooper, “Calamity for pope as the past – and case of Peter Hullermann – returns to haunt him”, in The Guardian:
      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.

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  • Yuri Dolgopolov (2016), “black-collar workers”, in A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases, McFarland, →ISBN, page 50