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"etymology_text": "From black market and -collar.",
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"ref": "1946, The Ethical Outlook, page 270:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1979, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:",
"text": "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?",
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"ref": "1991, Search ResultsBusiness Journal, volume 66, number 7, page 52:",
"text": "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.",
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"Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services."
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"(rare) Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services."
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"sense": "pertaining to employment in the black market",
"word": "黑領"
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"roman": "hēilǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to employment in the black market",
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"ref": "2012, Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond, editors, After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 176:",
"text": "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.",
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"Relating to creative work."
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"(slang) Relating to creative work."
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"ref": "2010, Robert Manne, David McKnight, editors, Goodbye to All That? […] , Black Inc., →ISBN, page 257:",
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"Relating to coalminers and oil workers."
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"ref": "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:",
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"Relating to the clergy."
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"ref": "1979, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:",
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"text": "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.",
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"(rare) Relating to the clergy."
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"sense": "pertaining to employment in the black market",
"word": "黑領"
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"roman": "hēilǐng",
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"word": "黑领"
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],
"word": "black-collar"
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