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white-collar definition

white·-collar (-käl′ər)

adjective

☆ designating or of clerical or professional workers or others employed in work not essentially manual

Etymology: from the formerly typical white shirts worn by such workers

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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