white-collaradjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌwaɪtˈkɒl.ər/us/ˌwaɪtˈkɑː.lɚ/relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort:
white-collar workers/unions
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- wilderness
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