Example sentences for: white-collar

How can you use “white-collar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Marx thought that the white-collar workers would eventually become "proletarianized" because of the alienating division of office labor and the depreciation of their value through free public education.

  • In the business and finance news box of the Wall Street Journal , there's word (credited to yesterday's Detroit News ) that in a move to retain white-collar employees, Chrysler is offering 15,000 nonunion salaried workers a grant of $4,000 for family-related expenses like elder care and children's college tuition.

  • Biden grew up in a white-collar suburb, his father was a car salesman, one grandfather was a state senator, and the only Biden on record as having worked near a mine was a mining engineer.

  • As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.

  • The new rule: Ordinary white-collar work in a household is not covered, but hazardous manufacturing work there is.


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