What does white-collar mean?

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white-col·lar

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. white-collaradjective

    of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers

    "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper"

Wiktionary

  1. white-collaradjective

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

  2. white-collaradjective

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

  3. 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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  1. white-collar

    White-collar generally refers to work or workers who are typically involved in professional, managerial, or administrative tasks in an office setting, rather than manual labor or blue-collar jobs. They are named so because they traditionally wore formal, white-collared shirts. It often implies a higher social class or high-income level due to the level of education and training required for these jobs.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of white-collar in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of white-collar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of white-collar in a Sentence

  1. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Dilapidated condition of Indian economy is such these days that first there are no Jobs and whatever little vacancy you see in newspaper is that for driver, fitter, welder, electricians, accounts assistants, teachers but nothing for white collar mainly for MBAs, B Tech or highly qualified people. No job advertisement is seen from Mutual Fund, Insurance, Banking or Big Industries. Governments jobs are almost never seen

  2. Kevin Downing:

    I think the judge showed that she is incredibly hostile towards Mr. Manafort Wednesday.Jackson and exhibited a level of callousness that I have not seen in a white collar case in over 15 years of prosecution.

  3. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar:

    Over the years, I think we have seen just how devastating that is, and when I was there, I worked hard on, for instance, doing more when it came to white collar crime, doing more with drug courts. And while here were still disparities in our system, like there were any, we had still managed in the eight years to reduce the African-American incarceration rate by 12 %.

  4. Max Gokhman:

    We are increasingly seeing white-collar companies realize that the flexibility employees wanted for some time doesn’t come with any real drawbacks.

  5. Lou Shapiro:

    Today, the news is fresh and society's anger and disgust is at a high, over the course of the next several months, after tempers cool, I expect that the public will view this case more analytically than emotionally, and realize that a federal state prison sentence on a first-time white-collar offense, under these facts, with these parents, might be a bit too punitive.


Translations for white-collar

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  • valkokaulus-Finnish
  • col blancFrench
  • ホワイトカラーJapanese
  • 화이트칼라Korean
  • канцела́рискиMacedonian
  • witteboorden-Dutch
  • «[[бе́лый]] [[воротничо́к]]», канцеля́рский, чистый, о́фисный, конто́рскийRussian

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