How to pronounce blue-collar

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What blue-collar means

adjective

Having to do with hands-on work in trades or factories

In a sentence: Her grandpa was proud of his blue-collar job fixing train engines.

Where it comes from: It comes from the blue work shirts, often made of denim, that many factory and trade workers wore. Office workers more often wore white shirts.

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