blue-collar
Example Sentences
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But in a blue-collar job market being reshaped by technology and private equity, there are faster routes to six-figure paychecks than learning a skilled trade—ones that are easier on the joints, too.
Vocational programs were long seen as places to silo academic underperformers into blue-collar work, administrators note.
"They know Rome wasn't built in a day," Vance said in the key, blue-collar swing state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
From Barron's
The Dodgers’ marketing strategy aimed at blue-collar fans of the boys in blue isn’t hypocritical.
From Los Angeles Times
That means higher prices, damage to car engines, and fewer good blue-collar jobs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
