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working stiff

NOUN
blue-collar worker
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blue collar
WEAK
common laborer employee factory worker hand industrial worker laborer lunch-bucket worker member of the working class nonoffice worker proletarian workingman workingwoman
NOUN
employee
Synonyms
STRONGEST
agent attendant clerk laborer member operator representative staff member worker
STRONG
apprentice assistant breadwinner cog domestic hand help hireling jobholder plug salesperson servant
WEAK
blue collar company person craftsperson desk jockey hired gun hired hand sales help wage earner white collar
Antonyms
STRONG
check hindrance master obstruction
NOUN
jobholder
Synonyms
STRONG
agent apprentice assistant attendant breadwinner clerk cog domestic hand help hireling laborer member operator plug representative salesperson servant worker
WEAK
blue collar company person craftsperson desk jockey hired gun hired hand sales help staff member wage earner white collar
Antonyms
STRONGEST
employer
STRONG
master
NOUN
laborer
Synonyms
STRONGEST
hand manual worker worker
STRONG
blue-collar worker employee help helper unskilled worker working man/woman
WEAK
drudge hireling peon
NOUN
proletariat
Synonyms
STRONGEST
lower class
STRONG
commoners peasant proletarian
WEAK
blue-collar workers common people hoi polloi plebians rank and file
NOUN
roustabout
Synonyms
STRONG
drudge farmhand grunt hand hireling operative peon worker workingman workman
WEAK
blue-collar worker manual worker migrant worker unskilled worker working girl working man/woman workingwoman workwoman
NOUN
worker
Synonyms
STRONGEST
employee laborer staff
STRONG
artisan breadwinner craftsperson hand help operative proletarian serf stiff toiler tradesperson
WEAK
blue collar company person nine-to-fiver wage earner white collar working person
NOUN
working class
Synonyms
WEAK
blue-collar workers common laborers factory laborers grassroots laboring class plebeians proles proletariat rank and file the other half unskilled laborers wage earners wage slaves workers workfolk working people working stiffs workpeople

Example Sentences

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If you’re a working stiff with a W-2 and some 1099s, the government already has most of your tax information, and the collection process associated with that information is largely automated.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2025

The thing about this virus is that it doesn’t care if you are a working stiff, a prince, or a movie star.

From Fox News • Mar. 26, 2020

Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family’s dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

But their higher prices have put the historically cheap fare out of the reach of the regular working stiff.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2017

"I'm a working stiff," I said, "I never get to meet the brass."

From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John