Antonyms for blue-collarblue-col·lar

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1. blue-collaradjective

   of or designating manual industrial work or workers

   Antonyms:
   pink-collar, middle-class, clerical, professional, upper-class, white-collar

   Synonyms:
   propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

   Antonyms:
   professional, pink-collar, middle-class, clerical, white-collar, upper-class

   Synonyms:
   propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

How to use blue-collar in a sentence?

1. African American:

   African American men may be involved with more blue collar type jobs, but those types may not translate to moderate to vigorous physical activity or be captured by the physical activity measures used in the study.

2. Jared Bernstein:

   The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth.

3. John Prine:

   I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

4. Ruy Teixeira:

   The chink in the armor [ for Republicans ], such as it is, there is a conflict between these [ blue-collar and rural ] voters' views of the rich and powerful in general and their views of entitlement programs and the way Republicans really do approach policy, if [ Democrats ] can convince more people that it's a really top priority to help you and your community, they would look the other way on some of their cultural conservative views. But until and unless you can make that case in a way that is convincing to a lot of these people, I don't think they are going to change.

5. Susan Page:

   Bernie Sanders has exceeded nearly everyone's expectations in becoming the hero of Democratic progressives, to go to the next level -- to become not only Hillary Clinton's chief challenger but also a potential nominee -- he needs to expand that appeal to include other important parts of the Democratic coalition, including African Americans, Hispanics and blue-collar workers.

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