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31white-collar crime — ➔ crime * * * white collar crime UK US noun [C or U] LAW, WORKPLACE ► crime in which an office worker or someone in business illegally takes money from their employer or the people they deal with in their business: »A state employee was charged… …
32White-Collar-Kriminalität — White|col|lar|kri|mi|na|li|tät auch: White Col|lar Kri|mi| …
33white-collar crime — A variety of nonviolent financial crimes, generally committed by businesspeople or public officials,involving commercial fraud, consumer fraud, swindles, insider trading on the stock market, embezzlement, bribery, or other dishonest schemes.… …
34white-collar criminal — white collar crime, a crime associated with white collar workers, such as embezzlement or fraud, or engaging in tax evasion, bribery, patent infringement, misrepresentation in advertising, and the like. –white collar criminal …
35white-collar worker — ➔ worker …
36white collar crime — n. a generic term for crimes involving commercial fraud, cheating consumers, swindles, insider trading on the stock market, embezzlement and other forms of dishonest business schemes. The term comes from the out of date assumption that… …
37white–collar crime — white–col·lar crime / hwīt kä lər / n: crime that is committed by salaried professional workers or persons in business and that usu. involves a form of financial theft or fraud (as in securities dealing) Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law.… …
38White-Collar-Kriminalität — White Col|lar Kri|mi|na|li|tät [wait kɔlə...] die; <nach gleichbed. engl. white collar crime, eigtl. »Verbrechen (das) im weißen Kragen (ausgeführt wird)«> nicht gewalttätige, weniger offensichtliche strafbare Handlungsweise, wie sie in… …
39white-collar crime — ☆ white collar crime n. a crime, as fraud, embezzlement, etc., committed by a person in business, government, or a profession in the course of occupational activities …
40white-collar — white′ col lar adj. bus pertaining to or designating professional or clerical workers whose jobs are usu. salaried and do not involve manual labor Compare blue collar Etymology: 1920–25 …
