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View synonyms for blue-collar

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of blue-collar1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

GOP leaders refused; they saw that Duke was pulling blue-collar Democrats to the party.

My adopted home region of Southern California has seen an almost 14% drop in high-wage blue-collar jobs since 2007.

And right now, working-class and blue-collar whites think the Democratic Party is just implacably against them.

“The post-90s generation wants office jobs, not blue collar work,” Sun explains.

These employ many in highly paid blue-collar fields, with average salaries of close to $100,000.

He must have been six, in a black velveteen suit with a light-blue collar-he remembered that suit well!

Then you've got your new Tussore with the blue collar and waistband.

He says he feels sorry for any one who has to wear a pink shirt with a blue collar.

Sailors' costume consists of a white shirt, with blue collar and cuffs, black handkerchief about the neck, and black tarpaulin.

In industry, the proportion of women in blue-collar and white-collar jobs was about equal.

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