Blue-collar

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]