white-collar
adj/ˌwaɪt ˈkɑlər/
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.
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Of or pertaining to office work and workers.
- This being a motion picture star is a real business. It's a job, and not always a white collar one, either.1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22:
- Derived terms
- white-collar boxing, white-collar crime, white-collar work, white-collar worker
- Related terms
- blue-collar, gray-collar, green-collar, grey-collar, no-collar, open-collar, pink-collar