adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a white-collar worker (= someone who works in an office, a bank etc )
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In the past, white-collar workers tended to work for one company for a long time, rather than changing jobs.
professional occupations/white-collar occupations (= jobs that usually involve a lot of education )
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professional occupations such as medicine or the law
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Teachers’ pay compares poorly with that of other white-collar occupations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crime
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Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
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But white-collar crime seems to be the new image of the law profession.
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Edwin Sutherland's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics.
employee
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Professionals and white-collar employees nowadays increasingly find their status and conditions under attack.
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As more white-collar employees use computer terminals to perform their work, instantaneous feedback on performance will become commonplace.
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The rich peasant was not a bourgeois, and neither was the white-collar employee .
job
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Only one, an insurance collector, had a white-collar job .
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Doctors, lawyers, white-collar jobs these were what motivated the kids to attend and their parents to dream.
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Many were in white-collar jobs , often in the public sector.
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It is already in existence in a number of white-collar jobs .
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Many other white-collar jobs , claims Braverman, are similarly fragmented.
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They are now more likely to work in the service industries, in low-paid white-collar jobs .
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The same can not be said at Ford, which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday's 1,180.
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Proportionately, white-collar jobs are disappearing even faster, and still more of them are at risk.
worker
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A new study is replicating and extending the earlier work with a larger group of white-collar workers .
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These categories include white-collar workers as well as blue-collar workers.
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Braverman believes that as a consequence of the changes outlined above the skills required of most routine white-collar workers are now minimal.
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Each was a weekend retreat for white-collar workers and gentry for purposes of education and uplift.
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Hence there is less routine manual work to do and the relative proportion of white-collar workers within factories rises.
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Its dynamic and smiling young white-collar workers are just as grotesque.
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Others claim that routine white-collar workers still belong to the middle class.
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Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a white-collar worker
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The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But white-collar crime seems to be the new image of the law profession.
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Effective measurement of white-collar performance would require more than just measurement of efficiency.
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In contrast, white-collar employment soared despite massive use of information technologies in areas such as accounting and finance.
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It should also be pointed out that white-collar industries have suffered from privatisation.
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Stress and activity are the new white-collar sources of identity.
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The expansion of white-collar unionism was a particular feature of the most recent phase.
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The foremen, members of the white-collar Manufacturing Science and Finance union, were protesting over the threat of compulsory redundancies.