blue-collar

Questions about blue-collar

What does blue-collar mean?

blue-collar means "of or designating manual industrial work or workers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blue-collar?

blue-collar has 3 syllables and divides as blue--col-lar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blue-collar?

Close synonyms include propertyless, wage-earning, working-class. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of blue-collar?

The recorded antonyms are white-collar.

Is blue-collar a common word?

blue-collar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.