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blue collar
Overview of adj blue-collar
The adj blue-collar has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (1) blue-collar -- (of or designating manual industrial work or workers)
2. (1) propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar -- (of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw)
Antonyms of adj blue-collar
2 senses of blue-collar
Sense 1
blue-collar (vs. white-collar)
white-collar (vs. blue-collar)
=> clerical
=> professional
=> pink-collar
Sense 2
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar
INDIRECT (VIA upper-class, lower-class) -> middle-class
INDIRECT (VIA lower-class, middle-class) -> upper-class
Similarity of adj blue-collar
2 senses of blue-collar
Sense 1
blue-collar (vs. white-collar)
=> industrial
=> manual(prenominal)
=> wage-earning, working-class
Also See> unskilled#1
Sense 2
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar
=> lower-class (vs. middle-class)(vs. upper-class), low-class
Pertainyms of adj blue-collar
Attributes of adj blue-collar
Domain of adj blue-collar
Domain Terms of adj blue-collar
Familiarity of adj blue-collar
blue-collar used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj blue-collar
blue-collar
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