(chiefly, UK, dated) White-collar, relating to office workers or office work.
(chiefly, UK, dated) White-collar, relating to office workers or office work.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
(slang) Relating to creative work.
(rare) Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
(US, slang, by extension) The police, a police officer or the clothing they wear.
(dated) A policeman.