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white-collar

DEFINITIONS OF: white-collar

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adj of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers

“the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper”
Synonyms
skilled
having or showing or requiring special skill
clerical
appropriate for or engaged in office work
professional
engaged in by members of a profession
pink-collar
of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women
Antonyms:
blue-collar
of or designating manual industrial work or workers
unskilled
not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
industrial
employed in industry
manual
doing or requiring physical work
wage-earning, working-class
working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
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