white-collar
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- adjective
- /ˈwaɪtˌkɑːlər/
- The company announced that it will hire more white-collar employees to improve its management team.
- white-collar workers
- white-collar jobs
- white-collar employees
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Watch on YouTubeI'm going to go hire a white collar law firm.
- I'm going to go hire a white collar law firm.
- You will see there are houses for blue collar workers and houses for white collar workers.
- Whereas the federal inmate during that period of time was more of a white collar smuggler, you know?
- He was the first white collar case where the government utilized wiretaps ever.
- They are, you know, you know, doctors, school teachers, bankers, whoever, white collar workers, you know, white middle class man, you know, whatever.
- We have the opportunity now to create many, many millions of good paying jobs for blue collar workers, for white collar workers, for people with graduate degrees.
- But we don't point those same technologies at Wall Street where we might also be able to predict other kinds of white, white collar crime.
- Well, I, I think it's important, but I think that, I mean, look, I think in the white collar arena, there's probably more work from home people.
- Wolf of Wall Street I think is like, if it's Martin Scorsese, he's saying this is a gangster, but he's a white collar gangster.
- Yes, but doesn't that say more about this country's view on drug cases and how we prosecute them and how we excuse white collar crime?
- But one world are, you know, it's kind of the elites and the elites might even mean white collar workers in corporate jobs that use words like quiet quitting.
- And if we're not counting those individuals through the FBI statistics that are white collar criminals, we leave a whole group of whiteness out of these equations.
- But has, you know, real kind of existential implications in terms of the workforce, not just with blue collar workers, but now very much, you know, white collar workers.
- This is still the same white collar professional at the same computer doing the same work, but a bit faster or, you know, you know, having a bit more ability.
- And the productivity for I guess what used to be called white collar workers, but you know, you're wearing a sweatshirt top.
- now on the white collar side of these ground up jobs.
- And, you know, and I mean, I, I, I don't care if it's blue collar or, or white collar, you know, I, my work ethic, whatever that means.
Examples
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Many young graduates aspire to find a white-collar job in an office setting.
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You will see there are houses for blue collar workers and houses for white collar workers.
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Generative AI is already changing white collar work as we know it.
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The defendant, like most white-collar offenders, had no prior criminal record.
Academic text (2017) -
In Ghana, professional associations of teachers, nurses, and other white-collar workers frequently joined trade union protests.
Academic text (1996) -
Since Brunei residents prefer white-collar jobs, much labor is imported from Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Merchants, professionals, shopkeepers, and other white-collar occupations are 42% of the labor force.
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Long-term joblessness has become more common in Finland, and redundancy now also affects white-collar occupations.
Academic text (1999) -
She has a white-collar position that involves overseeing various projects and budgets.
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Etymology
White-collar comes from the white collars of shirts that office workers used to wear. So, white-collar means people who do professional or 'office' work, not manual or factory work, which people call blue-collar.