white-collar

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

col blanc

fonctionnaire

Synonymes

white-collar worker

civil servant

clerical

functionary

government official

incumbent

middle-class

office

🏢

officer

official

bourgeois

government employee

Traductions

impiegatizio

impiegato

Angestellter

Beamter

funzionario

erkedar

fermanber

karmend

memûr

miwazif

wezîfedar

ambtenaar

beambte

witteboorden-

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.