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black-coated

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black-coated
adj
(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) Brit (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
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Adj.1.black-coated - coated with black
coated - having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination; "coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing"; "sugar-coated pills"


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The country to-day looks to its army and its navy to save it from the humiliation these black-coated parasites have encouraged, and yet even now we haven't a free hand.
As they did so they passed the dim alcove or cavern of the cloak room, and saw a short, black-coated figure, presumably an attendant, standing a little way back in the shadow of it.
 
 
 
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