blue-collar
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) - "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw • Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class • Similar to: lower-class, low-class
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