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Adjective: blue-collar  'bloo'kó-lu(r)
  1. Of or designating manual industrial work or workers
    "The factory employed mostly blue-collar workers"
     
  2. Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial labourers
    "party of the blue-collar proletariat";
    - propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

See also: industrial, low-class, lower-class, manual, unskilled, wage-earning, working-class

Antonym: white-collar

Encyclopedia: Blue-collar