blue-collar

blue-col·lar (bl

adj.

Of or relating to wage earners, especially as a class, whose jobs are performed in work clothes and often involve manual labor.

blue-collar n.

blue-collar

adj

(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workers a blue-collar union Compare white-collar, pink-collar

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Adj.	1.	blue-collar - of or designating manual industrial work or workers unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" white-collar - of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers; "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper"
	2.	blue-collar - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw propertyless, working-class, wage-earning low-class, lower-class - occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society

Translations

blue-collar [ˈbluːˌkɒləʳ]

A. ADJ [job] → manual

B. CPD blue-collar worker N → obrero/a m/f, trabajador(a) m/f manual

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Betrayal
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blue-collar worker
bluebottle
conservatism
employee
harmonization
industrial
labourer
Man
manual
pink-collar
propertyless
status
wage-earning
white-collar
working-class

The best actor award went to Italy's Sergio Castellitto, who played a single parent and blue-collar worker dreaming that his son will become a boxing champ in the movie "Alza la Testa.

Helen Mirren lands best actress honour at Rome Film Fest by Asian News International

Blue-collar jobs are those that involve manual efforts, while white-collar jobs are those that are done behind the desk.

Measuring Unemployment by Loren Yadeski / Jobs and Careers community

Among the older workers studied, Hispanic service workers, blue-collar workers with incomes at or below the poverty line and workers with fewer than 12 years of education reported particularly high levels of visual impairment, according to the study, which was based on data from the 1994-2004 National Health Interview Survey.

Older U.S. workers face sensory loss by The Nation's Health

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