Blue-collar worker

Meaning: a person who earns a living doing manual labor, or generally uses his or her body rather than his or her mind to earn a living

Example: Sam works on an assembly line mass-producing clock radios. He’s a blue-collar worker. People who work in factories doing heavy labor are usually blue-collar workers.

See also: white-collar worker

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