blue-collar
adjective/ˌbluː ˈkɒlə(r)/
/ˌbluː ˈkɑːlər/
[only before noun]- connected with people who do physical work in industry
- blue-collar workers/voters/votes
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBlue-collar is used with these nouns:- employee
- employment
- job
- …
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