Usually means: Professional, managerial, or administrative work.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word white collar:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. white collar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. white-collar: Merriam-Webster
  3. white-collar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. white-collar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. white-collar, white-collar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. white-collar: Vocabulary.com
  7. White-Collar, White-collar, white-collar: Wordnik
  8. white-collar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. white-collar: Wiktionary
  10. white-collar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. white-collar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. white-collar: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. white-collar, white collar: Dictionary.com
  14. white-collar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. White Collar (TV series), White Collar (season White+Collar+++(season+++1)), White Collar (season 2), White Collar (season 3), White Collar (season 4), White Collar (season 5), White-collar, White collar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. white-collar: Rhymezone
  17. white-collar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. white-collar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. white-collar: FreeDictionary.org

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. White Collar: Investopedia
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. white-collar: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. white-collar, white collar: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (White collar)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of white-collar [Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.]

Similar:
salaried, clerical, professional, whitecollar, gray collar, grey-collar, green collar, hard-working, anti-labor, whitehanded, more...

Opposite:
blue collar, manual, working-class

Phrases:
white collar crime, white collar worker, white collar crimes, white collar criminal, white collar workers, more...

Adjectives:
blue-collar, hourly, whitecollar, white-collar, mercenary, salaried, menial, working-class, salt, subordinate

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Similar:
salaried, clerical, professional, whitecollar, gray collar, grey-collar, green collar, hard-working, anti-labor, whitehanded, more...

Opposite:
blue collar, manual, working-class

Phrases:
white collar crime, white collar worker, white collar crimes, white collar criminal, white collar workers, more...

Adjectives:
blue-collar, hourly, whitecollar, white-collar, mercenary, salaried, menial, working-class, salt, subordinate



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