white-collar

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Sinonieme

white-collar worker

civil servant

clerical

functionary

government official

incumbent

middle-class

office

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officer

official

bourgeois

government employee

Vertalings

col blanc

impiegatizio

impiegato

Angestellter

fonctionnaire

funzionario

erkedar

Beamter

oficinista

fermanber

karmend

memûr

miwazif

wezîfedar

ذو ياقة بيضاء

Etimologie (Engels)

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