blue collar
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ər adjective
1.
of or pertaining to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
noun
2.
a blue-collar worker.
Origin:
1945–50
1945–50
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World English Dictionary
| blue-collar | |
| —adj | |
| white-collar Compare pink-collar of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workers: a blue-collar union | |
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Blue_collar
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
blue-collar definition
A descriptive term widely used for manual laborers, as opposed to white-collar for office workers.
Note: The term is often associated with conservative values.
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Example sentences
Though he's lucky enough to find an entry-level blue collar job, after numerous deployments, his family life is torn.
So you first outsource the blue collar workers, then the engineering and management get outsourced too a while later.
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