Crossword clues for blue-collar
blue-collar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
blue-collar \blue-collar\ adj.
of or designating work or workers in industry not requiring well-groomed appearance. [Narrower terms: industrial] white-collar
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of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers. [Narrower terms: lower-class, low-class]
Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class.
Wiktionary
a. Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor.
WordNet
adj. of or designating manual industrial work or workers [ant: white-collar]
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class]
Usage examples of "blue-collar".
Three-piece suiters ate next to blue-collar workers, their chatter and clinking dinnerware creating a din.
Every morning and noon black and white professionals, government workers, blue-collar laborers, lawyers, judges, bankers, and realtors are packed shoulder to elbow.
In the hierarchy of hell this put him far below the archdemons like Mammon, master of avarice, but far above the blue-collar demons like Arrrgg, who was responsible for leeching the styrofoam taste into take-out coffee.
The blue-collar lads all seemed to admire me for attributes that were not clear.
All these old sober Boston blue-collar men's irrevocable tattoos fading almost observably under the low-budget fluorescence of church basements and hospital auditoria Ewell watched and charted and cross-referenced them, moved.
I used to think we were kind of a blue-collar Brigadoon, the town that time and prosperity forgot.
Abusive men often have a need to control their partner and tend to be unemployed or blue-collar, a high school drop out, low paid, from a violent or abusive family, between 18 and 30, cohabiting with a partner with a different religion, and occasionally uses drugs.
She looked at the three photographs, two of them older and aristocratic faces, one aggressively blue-collar, and glanced through their biographical sketches, filled with vaguely familiar names of galleries, museums, and art schools, before turning to the articles themselves.
The blue-collared animal had its jaws clamped around the throat of the red-collared one.
The red-collared beast wriggled out from underneath the other and, twisting, turned on the other beast and immediately reversed the situation, fastening its prosthetic jaws around the throat of the blue-collared animal.
Genar-Hofoen asked with a laugh in his thought, as the blue-collared scratchound writhed hopelessly in the other beast's jaws and Fivetide started to turn to him.
The blue-collared Sinthian was poised on his glide board at the top of the long, curved flight of stairs that led from the Plaza's mezzanine to the main lobby.
The blue-collared Sinthian was poised on his glide board at the top of the long, curved flight of stairs that led from the Plaza’s mezzanine to the main lobby.
He also suggested that one third of the new blue-collar work force for NASA be culled from welfare, making for an annual savings of half a billion dollars.
Many have quit their jobs to become manual laborers or taxi drivers, or to take other blue-collar work that pays much better than their former white-collar jobs.