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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Amodei told Axios that the mass elimination of jobs could be in the offing, especially at the entry level across the technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 3 June 2025
In China, the retirement age is one of the lowest: 60 for men, 55 for white-collar women and 50 for women in factories.
—Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
However, if Amodei is correct, AI could wipe out more specialized white-collar roles that may have required years of expensive training and education — and those workers may not be so easily retrained for equal or higher-paying jobs.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
In an interview with Axios earlier this week, the exec said the technology could wipe out half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs and send the overall unemployment rate surging to between 10% and 20%.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 May 2025
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 3 June 2025
In China, the retirement age is one of the lowest: 60 for men, 55 for white-collar women and 50 for women in factories.
—Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
However, if Amodei is correct, AI could wipe out more specialized white-collar roles that may have required years of expensive training and education — and those workers may not be so easily retrained for equal or higher-paying jobs.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
In an interview with Axios earlier this week, the exec said the technology could wipe out half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs and send the overall unemployment rate surging to between 10% and 20%.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for white-collar
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“White-collar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-collar. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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