| 单词 | new collar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnew collar new collar adj. and n. [after blue-collar adj. 2] originally and chiefly U.S. (a) adj. designating or relating to a socio-economic group whose members hold low-wage service or office jobs rather than industrial or manual jobs; (b) n. a member of this socio-economic group. ΚΠ 1984 Newsweek 31 Dec. 59 (title) The new-collar class. 1985 Boston Globe 14 Apr. (Mag.) 82/2 New collars tend to view major elections coolly and at a distance. 1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation iv. 152 The ‘new collar’ proletariat of secretaries, office workers, salesmen, and store managers who have partly replaced blue-collar assembly line workers. < as lemmas |
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