 blue-collar |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] of or designating work or workers in occupations not requiring well-groomed appearance | |
| Related terms: | white-collar industrial wage-earning manual unskilled | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | |
| Synonyms: | working-class wage-earning propertyless | |
| Examples: | "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw |
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| Related terms: | lower-class | |
