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blue collar of the lower class or working class; of a job or a worker, having to do with manual labor. (Also, when used as an attributive adjective, often blue-collar. Compare this with white collar. Alludes to the typical color of work shirts worn by mechanics, laborers, etc.) His parents were both blue-collar workers. He was the first person in his family to go to college. They bought a house in a nice, settled, blue-collar neighborhood. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For job type, we classified retired subjects as white collar or blue collar based on their previous occupation. learned this shortly after he launched Blue Collar Objects L. Back around the middle of the twentieth century, when my father was working night and day to escape from the blue collar working class, Reg Theriault decided to stay. |
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