white-collar

See also: whitecollar

English

Etymology

white +‎ collar. From the colour of dress shirts worn by professional and clerical workers, as opposed to the rugged denim and chambray shirts normally worn by manual workers.

Alternative forms

• whitecollar
• white collar

Adjective

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

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

Derived terms

• white-collar crime
• white-collar worker

Related terms

• blue-collar
• pink-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), თეთრსაყელოიანები (tetrsaq̇eloianebi)

• 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)