blue-collar

2 definitions found

blue-collar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  blue-collar \blue-collar\ adj.
     1. of or designating work or workers in industry not
        requiring well-groomed appearance. [Narrower terms:
        industrial] white-collar
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. of those who work for wages especially manual or
        industrial laborers. [Narrower terms: lower-class,  low-class
        ]
  
     Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class.
          [WordNet 1.5]

blue-collar - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blue-collar
      adj 1: of or designating manual industrial work or workers [ant:
             white-collar]
      2: of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial
         laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
         [syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-   collar
         ]