black work
Americannoun
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work for which a person is paid in cash, with the transaction not recorded or reported, so as to avoid paying income tax on the amount earned.
Example Sentences
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He was wearing his black work shirt, one of the few belongings he was able to salvage.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022
Culpo wore a matching black work out set with a black jacket.
From Fox News • Sep. 1, 2021
It was thought he was wearing a black and red checked shirt and usually wears blue jeans or black work trousers.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2019
Many of the performances on the Grammys’ stage last night felt like arguments in its favour: Kendrick Lamar’s radically black work, Kesha’s liberationist balladry, and Alessia Cara, Logic and Khalid’s anti-suicide anthem 1-800-273-8255.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2018
The black work force in Chicago had fallen from sixty-five thousand in January to fifty thousand in May.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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