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blue-collar
[bloo-kol-er]
adjective
of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners.
noun
a blue-collar worker.
blue-collar
adjective
of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workers Compare white-collar pink-collar
a blue-collar union
blue-collar
A descriptive term widely used for manual laborers, as opposed to white-collar for office workers.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blue-collar1
Example Sentences
He was a blue-collar digger, distinctly a symbol of merit in its latest Trumpian definition.
“Paramount was all about a community of blue-collar workers who are doing their best to get by every day,” Lemons said.
He added that the situation may be different for those with desk jobs but that blue-collar workers with physically demanding professions would find the changes difficult.
He went to school and church in Chicago’s blue-collar South Side, then attended Villanova University.
The opposite, however, is what's happening: Trump's trade war is shutting down American factories that need foreign-sourced materials, as well as devastating other "manly" blue-collar jobs like truck driving and farming.
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