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blue-collar Definition

☆ blue·-collar (-käl′ər)

adjective

designating or of industrial workers, esp. the semiskilled and unskilled

Etymology: from the traditional color of work shirts

blue-collar Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • worker: Yet the people who score much higher on the stress indices are blue-collar workers.
  • job: He was a hard man, quick with his fists, the only law on many blue-collar jobs.
  • background: His parents, while educated, came from fairly blue-collar backgrounds.
  • town: Raised in the blue-collar town of Beaumont, in East Texas, Dayton had his musical influences on his doorstep.
  • life: But to see if I could improve upon the levels of complexity that telly used to animate blue-collar lives.
  • counterpart: Of removing the their blue-collar counterparts a payment to benefit design to.