Exercise 4
Read the following text and use tearma.ie to find equivalents for the highlighted expressions.
White-collar workers perform tasks which are less “physically laborious” yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. They are salaried professionals (such as some doctors, airline pilots, or lawyers), as well as employees in administrative or clerical positions. In some studies, managers are considered white-collar workers; in others they are not. The name derives from the traditional white shirts worn by workers of such professions.
(Source: Wikipedia)
How did you do? Click each expression below to reveal the answer.
white-collar workers
Whether you searched white-collar worker or white collar worker, you should have come up with the same results, oibrí fir4 bóna bháin.
tasks
You should have come up with tasc fir1. Under Related terms you should see every term which contains the word task, for example household task s, task force s. Note you did not find, for example, taskbar s because there is no punctuation mark between task and bar.
airline
You should have come up with aerlíne bain4. Note that the search engine also suggests the multi-word term air line. Similarly if you search air-line the search engine suggests the compound word airline.