Akademik

blue-collar

adjective

1. of or designating manual industrial work or workers (Freq. 1)

• Ant: ↑white-collar

• Similar to: ↑industrial, ↑manual, ↑wage-earning, ↑working-class

• See Also: ↑unskilled

2. of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers (Freq. 1)

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"party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

• Syn: ↑propertyless, ↑wage-earning, ↑working-class

• Similar to: ↑lower-class, ↑low-class

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ˌblue-ˈcollar [blue-collar] adjective only before noun

connected with people who do physical work in industry

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blue-collar workers/voters/votes

compare ↑pink-collar, ↑white-collar

Useful english dictionary. 2012.