blue-collar
Example Sentences
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The lunchtime crowd — high schoolers, blue-collar types, the elderly — waited patiently for their orders.
From Los Angeles Times
Lynn Wu, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in AI and labor, said in an interview that there will be a “medium-term renaissance” for blue-collar work.
From MarketWatch
The firm sends thousands of blue-collar workers overseas each year in search of regular, better paid work.
From Barron's
Plus, the potential benefits of a blue-collar career change and why MBAs from top schools are struggling to get hired.
My entire career, I felt like a blue-collar working-class actor trying to be in the best movies and do the best work I possibly can.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
