BLUE-COLLAR


Meaning of BLUE-COLLAR in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a manual/blue-collar worker (= someone who does physical work )

Manual workers often live close to their workplace.

manual occupations/blue-collar occupations (= jobs in which you work using your hands )

People from manual occupations are most at risk of experiencing poverty.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

worker

The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.

The school serves a community of approximately 10, 000 people, mostly blue-collar workers who are employed by the pickle plant.

Cosby portrays a blue-collar worker who was forced to retire early from an airline.

Buchanan successfully tapped the economic insecurity of blue-collar workers by slamming trade agreements embraced by most Republican leaders, including Dole.

These categories include white-collar workers as well as blue-collar workers.

For most of the 1980s that international mobility undermined mostly blue-collar workers .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Always a blue-collar town, Gary developed into a mighty industrial force on the strength of the nearby lakefront steel mills.

Aside from its cast, the show was lauded for its honest and realistic depiction of blue-collar family life.

His ability to deliver the C2 blue-collar , Essex-man vote has, arguably, won them the last two general elections.

Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.

The school serves a community of approximately 10, 000 people, mostly blue-collar workers who are employed by the pickle plant.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.