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[ adjective ] of or designating work or workers in occupations not requiring well-groomed appearance
Used in print (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)The motifs of impersonal interdependence and insulation of residential communities have polarized ; the schism between central_city and suburb , Negro and White , blue_collar and white_collar can be viewed_as symptomatic_of this deeper polarization of trends in the metropolis . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
Synonyms Examples "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)The blue-collar worker thus knows his insurance package , for_example , costs $ 227.72 . Related terms |
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