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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