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WHITE-COLLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does white-collar mean?
• WHITE-COLLAR (adjective)
The adjective WHITE-COLLAR has 1 sense:
1. of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
Familiarity information: WHITE-COLLAR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
Context example:
the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper
Similar:
clerical (appropriate for or engaged in office work)
professional (engaged in by members of a profession)
pink-collar (of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women)
Also:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Antonym:
blue-collar (of or designating manual industrial work or workers)
Context examples
In the study, researchers tracked more than 3,500 white-collar employees at three public institutions in Quebec over a five-year period.
(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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