blue-collar
Example Sentences
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"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.
By 1956, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar workers for the first time—marking the transition to a service economy.
The truck’s futuristic design is also less geared toward the blue-collar workers who tend to buy pickups, which are usually marketed as rugged work vehicles.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
