ADJECTIVE
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of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
party of the propertyless proletariat - of or designating manual industrial work or workers
How To Use blue-collar In A Sentence
- Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
- Cosby portrays a blue-collar worker who was forced to retire early from an airline.
- Earl is a cigar-chomping, blue-collar megalosaurus, and he's just been canned from his job as a tree pusher for the Wesayson Development Corp. A Megalosaurus Hit?
- ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
- His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers.
- In a Gallup poll of Dec. 18, for example, his job approval with these voters—usually described as blue-collar workers—was 40%, down 26 points from January 2009. Obama's Strategy—And How to Fight It
- Most people—including so-called blue-collar workers—will find their jobs more challenging as lean production spreads. The Machine That Changed the World
- Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
- Give the country boy, blue-collar worker, farmer in Tennessee a voice he can relate to.
- A narrative that claims we will replace all of the lost blue-collar jobs with new green-collar jobs plays much better.
