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white-collar adjective
/ˌwaɪtˈkɒl.ər/
/-ˈkɑː.lɚ/ adj [before noun] Definition
relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort
white-collar workers/unions
(Definition of white-collar adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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