white-collar
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ər, ˈwaɪt- adjective
1.
belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
noun
2.
a white-collar worker.
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| white-collar | |
| —adj | |
| blue-collar Compare pink-collar of, relating to, or designating nonmanual and usually salaried workers employed in professional and clerical occupations: white-collar union | |
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White-collar
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Cultural Dictionary
white-collar definition
A descriptive term for office workers, who use a minimum of physical exertion, as opposed to blue-collar laborers. Managerial, clerical, and sales jobs are common white-collar occupations.
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Example sentences
So the idea of making crooks, especially white-collar ones, pay their way could take off.
His first response was a plan to streamline management, reducing the company's white-collar ranks through attrition.
So there is a cultural mismatch in terms of how people operate within that white-collar world.
Increasingly, though, they are centres of white-collar work.
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