belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
Blue-collar layoffs have started turning into white-collar layoffs.
His first response was a plan to streamline management, reducing the company's white-collar ranks through attrition.
Computers do increasing amounts of white-collar work.
Most white-collar jobs already consist of mind work.
His study asked several hundred white-collar workers how they'd landed their jobs.
It's even more important than whether the parents went to college or hold white-collar jobs.
And white-collar employees are not immune to the skills gap as education levels increase around the world.
He's well-read and has a reasonably secure white-collar job.
Geologists are only behind policemen and firemen for white-collar mortality rates.
So the idea of making crooks, especially white-collar ones, pay their way could take off.
British Dictionary definitions for white-collar
white-collar
adjective
1.
of, relating to, or designating nonmanual and usually salaried workers employed in professional and clerical occupations: white-collar union Compare blue-collar, pink-collar
white-collar in Culture
white-collar definition
A descriptive term for office workers, who use a minimum of physical exertion, as opposed to blue-collar laborers. Managerial, clerical, and sales jobs are common white-collar occupations.
Slang definitions & phrases for white-collar
white-collar
modifier
Employed as clerks, office workers, etc: The white collar workers don't strike very often/ As early as the 1920s they were called white-collar slaves and by the 1950s nine-to-fivers
Performed by people who work in offices, esp by managers, high executives, etc: White-collar crime has become a serious problem(1919+)