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blue-collar

blue-col·lar
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [bloo kol-er]
    • /blu ˈkɒl ər/
    • /bluː ˈkɒl.ər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bloo kol-er]
    • /blu ˈkɒl ər/

Definitions of blue-collar word

  • adjective blue-collar Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices. 3
  • adjective blue-collar of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workers 3
  • adjective blue-collar designating or of industrial workers, esp. the semiskilled and unskilled 3
  • adjective blue-collar 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. 1
  • noun blue-collar a blue-collar worker. 1
  • adjective blue-collar working class, labouring 1

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Origin of blue-collar

First appearance:

before 1945
One of the 6% newest English words
First recorded in 1945-50

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Blue-collar

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

blue-collar popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 54% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

Synonyms for blue-collar

adj blue-collar

  • middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
  • proletariat — common people, working class
  • working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
  • proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
  • lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.

Antonyms for blue-collar

adj blue-collar

  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.

Top questions with blue-collar

  • what are blue-collar jobs?

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