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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. Compare white-collar.
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.
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Origin of blue-collar1
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Example Sentences
One thing that blue-collar communities share across the country—whether in rural areas or inner cities — is that their residents have lost their mobility.
There was a criminal element, of course, but it was mostly blue-collar workers and street vendors who took it to endure tiring shifts, using the euphemism pampagilas or “performance-enhancer.â€
Both parties tend to align on the cost of living and the economy, especially among blue-collar, working-class Latinos.
But I think that also I want to just examine the man fully and all his complexity, where he came from, being a blue-collar man, being a family man.
We must improve our connection to and our communications with the middle class and blue-collar voters.
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