white-collar
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper
Related & opposite
- skilled also see
- blue-collar antonym
- clerical similar to
- professional similar to
- pink-collar similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | skilled |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | blue-collar |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | clerical |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | professional |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | pink-collar |