white-collar crime
white-collar crime · white-collar crimes
Wirtschaftskriminalität
Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving moneyNon-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.
Fraud and embezzlement are examples of white-collar crime.
Wirtschaftskriminalität
Translations
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By meaning 1
non-violent crime:
Origin
Introduced by American sociologist Edwin Sutherland.Introduced by American sociologist Edwin Sutherland.
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Forms
plural: white-collar crimes| Singular | white-collar crime |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedwhite-collar criminal
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.