white-collar workers

[white-collar workers] {n. phr.}

Workers employed in offices and at desks as opposed to those who work as manual workers; the middle class.

* /It is a well-known fact that white-collar workers are less well organized than unionized manual workers./

Contrast BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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