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white-collar

[ hwahyt-kol-er, wahyt- ]

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

  1. a white-collar worker.

white-collar

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or designating nonmanual and usually salaried workers employed in professional and clerical occupations Compare blue-collar pink-collar

    white-collar union

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

white-collar

  1. 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of white-collar1

First recorded in 1920–25
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A natural spark she displayed when she was younger led to her being integrated into its white-collar culture.

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Companies can indemnify executives, even for criminal charges, she said, though this would typically be in cases of white-collar crime such as fraud and not sex trafficking.

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The Marcellus report also points out that white-collar urban jobs are becoming harder to come by as artificial intelligence automates clerical, secretarial and other routine work.

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We made our professional debuts on the same day, although our previous boxing experience was vastly different with me coming through the unlicensed white-collar scene and Dubois through the more traditional amateur set-up.

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Democrats should support AI efforts in biotechnology and antibiotics for better science, but must not allow Big Tech to create "people robots" that can eliminate tens of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar jobs.

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