white-collar
adjective
white-col·lar
ˈ(h)wīt-ˈkä-lər 
: of, relating to, or constituting the class of salaried employees whose duties do not call for the wearing of work clothes or protective clothing compare blue-collar
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One of the reasons that young people have been steered away from the skilled trades is the perception that these careers are somehow a lesser option than white-collar work.
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Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Black Americans, from steelworkers to white-collar professionals, were routinely denied F.H.A. loans and often suffered under redlining policies that made homeownership prohibitively expensive for them.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Among them: Andrew Boutros, now the co-chair of the government investigations and white-collar group at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP; Jeffrey Cramer, senior litigation counsel at the Department of Justice; Paul Tzur, now a partner at Blank Rome LLP; and Mark Schneider, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
His sentence of 25 years was about half of what prosecutors had asked for, but still put him at the high end for sentence length in prominent white-collar fraud cases.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
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Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Black Americans, from steelworkers to white-collar professionals, were routinely denied F.H.A. loans and often suffered under redlining policies that made homeownership prohibitively expensive for them.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Among them: Andrew Boutros, now the co-chair of the government investigations and white-collar group at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP; Jeffrey Cramer, senior litigation counsel at the Department of Justice; Paul Tzur, now a partner at Blank Rome LLP; and Mark Schneider, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
His sentence of 25 years was about half of what prosecutors had asked for, but still put him at the high end for sentence length in prominent white-collar fraud cases.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
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“White-collar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-collar. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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