white-collar English

Meaning white-collar meaning

What does white-collar mean?

white-collar

— adjective of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper

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white-collar English » English

white-collar worker

official

officer

office

middle-class

incumbent

government official

government employee

functionary

clerical

civil servant

bourgeois

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By contrast, employment in middle-skill, white-collar, and blue-collar occupations fell, particularly in manufacturing.