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white-collar crime definition

☆ white-collar crime

a crime, as fraud, embezzlement, etc., committed by a person in business, government, or a profession in the course of occupational activities

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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