black-collar

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black-collar

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From black market and -collar.

adjective

not comparable, rare Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services. 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.
not comparable, slang Relating to creative work. black-collar worker
not comparable Relating to coalminers and oil workers. 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.
not comparable, rare Relating to the clergy. 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.
Similar: cleric, clerical, black-collar, pastoral

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adj pertaining to employment in the black market

中文	黑領 /黑领 hēilǐng

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@misc{black_collar_2026,
  title = {black-collar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/black-collar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}