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white-collar

white-collar

See also: whitecollar

English

Adjective

white-collar ‎(comparative more white-collar, superlative most white-collar)

Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.
Pertaining to the culture of white-collar workers, as values, politics, etc.; contrasted with blue-collar.

Translations

of or pertaining to office work and workers

Chinese:
Mandarin: 白領 (zh), 白领 (zh) ‎(báilǐng)
Dutch: witteboorden-
Finnish: valkokaulus-
French: col blanc (fr)
Georgian: საოფისე ‎(saopise), საკანცელარიო ‎(saḳancelario), თეთრსაყელოიანი ‎(tetrsaq̇eloiani)
Japanese: ホワイトカラー ‎(howaito karā)

Korean: 화이트칼라 (ko) ‎(hwaiteukalla)
Macedonian: канцела́риски ‎(kanceláriski)
Portuguese: de/do colarinho branco
Russian: канцеля́рский (ru) ‎(kanceljárskij), конто́рский (ru) ‎(kontórskij), о́фисный (ru) ‎(ófisnyj), «чи́стый» (ru) ‎(“čístyj”), «бе́лый воротничо́к» m ‎(“bélyj vorotničók”) (noun)

Related terms

white-collar crime