adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a manual/blue-collar worker (= someone who does physical work )
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Manual workers often live close to their workplace.
manual occupations/blue-collar occupations (= jobs in which you work using your hands )
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People from manual occupations are most at risk of experiencing poverty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
worker
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The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.
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The school serves a community of approximately 10, 000 people, mostly blue-collar workers who are employed by the pickle plant.
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Cosby portrays a blue-collar worker who was forced to retire early from an airline.
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Buchanan successfully tapped the economic insecurity of blue-collar workers by slamming trade agreements embraced by most Republican leaders, including Dole.
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These categories include white-collar workers as well as blue-collar workers.
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For most of the 1980s that international mobility undermined mostly blue-collar workers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Always a blue-collar town, Gary developed into a mighty industrial force on the strength of the nearby lakefront steel mills.
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Aside from its cast, the show was lauded for its honest and realistic depiction of blue-collar family life.
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His ability to deliver the C2 blue-collar , Essex-man vote has, arguably, won them the last two general elections.
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Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.
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The school serves a community of approximately 10, 000 people, mostly blue-collar workers who are employed by the pickle plant.