white-collar
/wʌɪtˈkɒlə
/adjective
1Relating to the work done or the people who work in an office or other professional environment.The white-collar salaried professions, such as public administration and banking, did however, provide the potential for mobility....
- About 50 million Americans work in these white-collar office jobs.
- Changes in employment that have downgraded the status and pay of many of the old white-collar professions have rendered this term almost meaningless.
Synonyms
non-manual, office, clerical, professional, executive, salaried
technical ABC1
1.1Denoting non-violent crime committed by white-collar workers, especially fraud.More regular surveys are being conducted of business corporations, resulting in greater exposure of fraud and white-collar crime....
- The alleged criminal conduct was a nonviolent white-collar crime of which the many bank depositors in the Pekin area were the victims.
- The Federal Trade Commission has named identity theft the fastest-growing white-collar crime today.
Rhymes
- molluscum contagiosum
- molluscum contagiosum virus
- molluscum fibrosum
- molluscum sebaceum
- molluscum virus
- mollusk
- Mollweide projection
- molly
- molly-blob
- Molly bolt
- Molly Bright
- mollycoddle
- mollycoddler
- molly coddler
- Molly dancer
- molly dook
- molly-dooked
- mollydooker
- mollyhack
- mollyhawk
- molly-house
- mollyish
- Molly Maguire
- mollymawk
- Molniya orbit