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1. Oxford Dictionary

   white-shoe

   • adj.
     denoting a company, especially a bank or law firm, owned and run by members of the Wasp elite, generally regarded as cautious and conservative；denoting a privileged and wealthy American person, considered as part of a conservative social set
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   adj.

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   • 1. US denoting a company, especially a bank or law firm, owned and run by members of the Wasp elite, generally regarded as cautious and conservative she was recently fired from a white-shoe law firm the firm is not the stuffy white-shoe outfit everyone thinks it is
   • ▪ denoting a privileged and wealthy American person, considered as part of a conservative social set white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines
   • 2. Australian belonging to or characteristic of the wealthy business people of Queensland in the 1980s, especially when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative this was the white-shoe part of town, where the senator had his home

   white shoe brigade

   • n.
     (especially during the 1980s) wealthy business people of Queensland, typically property ... the white shoe brigade preferred the real-estate speculation model of productivity

   Oxford Dictionary

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   white-shoe

   • IPA[ˈ(h)wītˌSHo͞o]

   美式

   • adj.
     denoting a company, especially a law firm, owned and run by members of the WASP elite, ...

   Oxford American Dictionary