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bluecollar worker
| Main Entry: |
blue-collar worker
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manual or technical laborer |
| Synonyms: | common laborer, employee, factory worker, hand, industrial worker, laborer, lunch-bucket worker, member of the working class, nonoffice worker, proletarian, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman |
| Main Entry: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, common people, commoners, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, plebians, proletarian, rank and file, working stiff |
| Notes: | bourgeoisie is the middle class, while the proletariat is a lower working class |
| Main Entry: | working class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common laborers |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, common laborer, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat, rank and file, the other half, unskilled laborer, unskilled laborers, wage-earners, workers, workfolk, working people, working stiff, working stiffs, workpeople |
| Main Entry: | roustabout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laborer |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, operative, peon*, unskilled worker, worker, working girl, working man/woman, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman, workman, workwoman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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