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white-collar
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As an adjective, white-collar means of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers.
Meanings of white-collar
1 meaningadjective
Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
“the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).