blue-collar worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofblue-collarandworker
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blue-collar
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌbluːˈkɒl.ər/us/ˌbluːˈkɑː.lɚ/
Blue-collar workers do work needing strength or physical skill rather than ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofblue-collarandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, a healthy youngblue-collarworkersubsidizes a wealthy older manager who is a heavy user of medical services.
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Again, theblue-collarworkerhas the great tradition of the trades union movement.
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The things which were of value to him then are no longer here, because in a time of full employment theblue-collarworkercomes completely into his own.
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If he is a craftsman theblue-collarworkermay have training and skills, but on the other hand the philosophy of hire and fire still follows him around.
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He is described as a thinker and an outsider, almost ablue-collarworker.
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He also worked his way up through the mining company, starting from the bottom as ablue-collarworker.
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All the regional funds had combined into a national health fund for blue-collar workers.
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By the 1960s, ablue-collarworkerearned more than a manager did in the 1940s, despite the fact that his relative position within the income distribution had not changed.
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It initially covered only blue-collar workers, representing only 3% of the population.
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