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black-coated

black-coated adjective: white-collar, relating to office workers or office work.

Adjective

black-coated (not comparable)

  1. (UK, dated) White-collar, relating to office workers or office work.
    • Morrison, son of a policeman and a housemaid, is a born politician. He controls the city administration of London. Says he, “Labor must attract the black-coated worker” (i.e., white-collar worker).1945 June 25, “The British Begin Election Battle”, in Life, page 22
    • Briefly, it limited the number of persons of Jewish religion to be admitted to the professions of the Press, the Theatre (including Films), the Law, Medicine and Engineering, and to black-coated employments both in these professions and in financial, commercial or industrial enterprises employing...1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 219

Origin of black-coated

From black + coated, from the black coats traditionally worn by clergy, lawyers, and other professional and clerical workers.

Questions about black-coated

What does black-coated mean?
Black-coated means white-collar, relating to office workers or office work.
What part of speech is black-coated?
Black-coated is an adjective.

Words near black-coated in the dictionary

  1. black-capped tinamou
  2. black-capped tinamous
  3. black-chinned siskin
  4. black-chinned siskins
  5. black-clad
  6. black-coated
  7. black-collar
  8. black-crested antshrike
  9. black-crested antshrikes
  10. black-crested tit
  11. black-crested titmice

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