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Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary
white-collar
ˌwhite-ˈcollar BrE AmE adjective 1. [only before noun] white-collar workers have jobs in offices, banks etc rather than jobs working in factories, building things etc ⇨ blue-collar, pink-collar: white-collar jobs 2. white-collar crime crimes involving white-collar workers, for example when someone secretly steals money from the organization they work for • • • THESAURUS ▪ class a group of students or schoolchildren who are taught together: There are twenty kids in the class. | She gets along well with the other children in her class. | I’m going out with some friends from my dance class. | 'I graduated in 1999.' 'What class were you in?' ▪ background the type of home and family you come from, and its social class: The school takes kids from all sorts of backgrounds. | We come from the same town and share a similar background. | working-class/middle-class etc background: The organization helps children from working-class backgrounds to go to university. ▪ middle-class belonging to the class of people who are usually well educated, fairly rich, and who work in jobs which they have trained to do. For example, doctors, lawyers, and managers are middle-class: The newspaper’s readers are mostly middle class. | They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town. ▪ white-collar someone who works in an office, not a factory, mine etc: white-collar worker/job/employee: The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs. ▪ working-class belonging to the class of people who do not have much money or power, and who have jobs where they do physical work. For example, factory workers, builders, and drivers are working-class: Most of the people who live round here are working class. | I come from a working-class family – I’m the first one to graduate from college. ▪ blue-collar someone who does physical work, for example in a factory or a mine, and does not work in an office: blue-collar worker/job/employee: His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers. ▪ upper-class belonging to the class of people who originally had most of the money and power, especially families that own a lot of land: Most senior politicians in the UK are from upper-class families. | He spoke with an upper-class accent. ▪ underclass the lowest social class, who are very poor and may not have jobs, homes etc: The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society.
white-collarhu◎ | ['wait'kɔlə] | ※ | tính từ | | ■ | (nói về công việc, người lao động...) không làm bằng chân tay; lao động trí óc | | 〆 | white-collar worker | | ✓ | nhân viên văn phòng |
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