| ADJECTIVE | all | white-collar | of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers |
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| Meaning | Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers. | |
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| Example | "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper" | |
| Narrower | clerical | Appropriate for or engaged in office work |
| pink-collar | Of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women | |
| professional | Engaged in by members of a profession | |
| See also | skilled | Having or showing or requiring special skill |
| Opposite | blue-collar | Of or designating manual industrial work or workers |
| Spanish | de oficina, oficinista | |
| Catalan | oficinista | |
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