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white-collar

adj

Etymology

From the color of dress shirts worn by professional and clerical workers, as opposed to the rugged denim and chambray shirts normally worn by manual workers.

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to office work and workers

    Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.

    • This being a motion picture star is a real business. It's a job, and not always a white collar one, either.

  2. Pertaining to the culture of white-collar workers, as values, politics, etc.

    Pertaining to the culture of white-collar workers, as values, politics, etc.; contrasted with blue-collar.

The neighborhood

Derived

white-collar boxing, white-collar crime, white-collar work, white-collar worker

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA