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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
white-shoe is an adjective meaning "denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative". It carries one recorded sense.
denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative
“the politician tried to hide his white-shoe background”
colloquialism
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for white-shoe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. .