those having professions free of hard labor, office and professional workers, people whose jobs usually do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes
clerical, of those having professions free of hard labor, relating to office and professional workers, of or pertaining to managerial and clerical apparatus
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White-collar Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
white-collar
adj : of or designating work or workers of relatively high status whose duties call for well-groomed appearance; "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper" [ant: blue-collar]
Adjective
1. of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers; "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper"
(antonym) blue-collar
(similar) clerical
(see-also) skilled
White-collar Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
refers to employees who perform knowledge work, such as those in professional, managerial or administrative positions. see also blue-collar.
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White collar could refer to:
- White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor
- White-collar crime, a non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money
- White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills
- White Collar (TV series), a police-procedural, dramatic television series starring Matt Bomer that premiered on the USA Network on October 23, 2009
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