white-collar
adjective/ˌwaɪt ˈkɒlə(r)/
/ˌwaɪt ˈkɑːlər/
[usually before noun]- working in an office, rather than in a factory, etc.; connected with work in offices
- white-collar workers
- a white-collar job
- white-collar crime (= in which office workers steal from their company, etc.)
- Identity theft is the fastest growing white-collar crime in the country.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryWhite-collar is used with these nouns:- crime
- criminal
- employee
- …
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