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blue-collar

[ bloo-kol-er ]

adjective

  1. 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

  1. a blue-collar worker.

blue-collar

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workers Compare white-collar pink-collar

    a blue-collar union

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

blue-collar

  1. A descriptive term widely used for manual laborers, as opposed to white-collar for office workers.
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Notes

The term is often associated with conservative values.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of blue-collar1

First recorded in 1945–50
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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.

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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€

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Both parties tend to align on the cost of living and the economy, especially among blue-collar, working-class Latinos.

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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.

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We must improve our connection to and our communications with the middle class and blue-collar voters.

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