Definitions for blue-collar

blue-collar blue-col·lar

Spelling: [bloo-kol-er]
IPA: /ˈbluˈkɒl ər/

Blue-Collar is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in blue-collar (-abcellloru).

Definitions for blue-collar

noun

  1. a blue-collar worker.

adjective

  1. of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.

Origin of blue-collar

First recorded in 1945-50

Examples for blue-collar

“There are a lot of really hard-working, blue-collar people on this train,” she says.

The next level is made up of blue-collar industrial workers, who constitute the largest group in the society.

Born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, he grew up in a blue-collar family.

In industry, the proportion of women in blue-collar and white-collar jobs was about equal.

The value of blue-collar expertise is accepted without question.

And right now, working-class and blue-collar whites think the Democratic Party is just implacably against them.

Louie encounters a blue-collar maintenance worker who tells him a joke about Pinocchio—incorrectly.

Four-fifths of all women working in industry were in blue-collar jobs.

“It puts pressure on the white-collar worker rather than on the blue-collar worker,” he said.

They have included highly qualified professionals and blue-collar workers, PhD.s.

Word Value for blue-collar
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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