collarnoun
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Types of employment
admin
administrative
administrative assistant
administratively
at the coalfaceidiom
job-share
job-sharing
jobbing
jobless
joblessness
professionality
qualified
recertify
redundancy
redundant
well qualified
WFH
white-collar
who's whoidiom
wilderness yearsidiom
pink-collar | Business English
pink-collar
adjective[ before noun ]
HR USukus
relating to low-paying jobs that are traditionally done by women:
pink-collar job/workerHaving to balance a career and a family often leads women to choose pink-collar jobs.
Compareblue-collar
white-collar
Examples of pink-collar
pink-collar
In many lines of work, be they blue-collar, pink-collar, or white-collar, there is little sense that one is contributing to one's community.
In the aggregate, managers and other professionals are more valuable than blue - and pink-collar workers.
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