Usually means: Professional, managerial, or administrative work.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word white-collar:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. white-collar: Merriam-Webster
  2. white-collar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. white-collar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. white-collar, white-collar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. white-collar: Vocabulary.com
  6. White-Collar, White-collar, white-collar: Wordnik
  7. white-collar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. white-collar: Wiktionary
  9. white-collar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. white-collar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. white-collar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. white-collar: Dictionary.com
  13. white-collar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. White-collar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. white-collar: Rhymezone
  16. white-collar: FreeDictionary.org
  17. white-collar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. white-collar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.
adjective:  Pertaining to the culture of white-collar workers, as values, politics, etc.; contrasted with blue-collar.

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