white-collar

See also: whitecollar

English

Etymology

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.

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.

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)

Related terms

• white-collar crime