BLUE-COLLAR Synonyms

• involving active participation

• of or relating to or resulting from industry

• having highly developed industries

• employed in industry

• suitable to stand up to hard wear

• doing arduous or unpleasant work

• of or relating to the hands

• requiring human effort

• a small handbook

• (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle

• doing or requiring physical work

• being in force or having or exerting force

• relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

• a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

• effective; producing a desired effect

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit

• relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics

• having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses

• according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)

• characterized by energetic bodily activity

• impelled by physical force especially against resistance

• concerned with material things

• a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

• belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat

• of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

• working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

• of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers