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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Toyota Motor reported a roughly 31% increase in its American white-collar workforce from 2020 through 2025, to roughly 47,500 people.
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Michael Wayland, CNBC, 15 May 2026
Trump wanted to denaturalize her because she had been convicted of a white-collar crime years after becoming a citizen.
—Daisy Hernández, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
Boosters see the agents, unlike chatbots, as a convincing step toward the predictions of AI executives that the technology could eliminate untold white-collar jobs and rewire the very nature of work.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
The reason for this expansion is that a large amount of white-collar work is made of repeatable information tasks.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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Michael Wayland, CNBC, 15 May 2026
Trump wanted to denaturalize her because she had been convicted of a white-collar crime years after becoming a citizen.
—Daisy Hernández, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
Boosters see the agents, unlike chatbots, as a convincing step toward the predictions of AI executives that the technology could eliminate untold white-collar jobs and rewire the very nature of work.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
The reason for this expansion is that a large amount of white-collar work is made of repeatable information tasks.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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“White-collar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-collar. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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