blue-collar
61
3.6
- adjective
- /ˈbluːˌkɑːlər/
:
de clase trabajadora
- Further, large numbers of blue-collar workers migrated out of the county during the 1970s.
- blue-collar workers
- blue-collar jobs
- white-collar or blue-collar
We need to respect people in blue collar jobs for simple reasons.
- We need to respect people in blue collar jobs for simple reasons.
- You will see there are houses for blue collar workers and houses for white collar workers.
- It is a blueprint for blue collar people.
- Trump tried to call Biden's blue collar roots in Scranton, PA, into question.
- And it's worth noting that really here blue collar is what's actually holding ground.
- This is not like these are blue collar people that spend their money.
- I grew up in Jersey in very blue collar, lower middle class neighborhoods.
- You know, it's blue collar, you know, it's regular common folks, factory workers.
- He was a a labor activist, blue collar guy.
Examples
-
The factory employs many blue-collar workers who operate heavy machinery.
-
These are people who are very hardworking, blue collar Americans.
-
But anyway, you can see that blue collar employment has been very, very strong.
-
This was the absolute classic profile of a blue collar family of his generation.
-
I grew up in Jersey in very blue collar, lower middle class neighborhoods.
-
I come from a blue-collar background.
-
This is an honest, blue-collar neighborhood.
-
Until the 1920s, many blue-collar workers could not afford to buy a new suburban house.
Academic text (1994) -
He was a Glazer and just a blue collar type of man.
-
The featured speaker talked about growing up in a hard-working, blue-collar family.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
56
3.4
Relates to people who do manual or factory jobs and earn wages
Antonyms
How Manual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word blue-collar comes from the blue shirts and collars that many factory and manual workers wore to 'hide dirt' and oil, and was used to show the difference from white-collar 'office' workers. So, blue-collar today describes jobs with physical or industrial work rather than desk work.