See gray-collar on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From gray and collar by extension of white-collar and blue-collar, perhaps with gray being seen as intermediate between white and blue.",
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"ref": "1963, R. Robb Taylor, editor, University and community; proceedings of a conference, April 25-26, 1963, under the auspices of the Association of Urban Universities and the Johnson Foundation, page 58:",
"text": "But if you look at the employment trends in the country, you find that the white-collar (and gray-collar) activities have become increasingly important...",
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"text": "1964, National Ice Association: Forty-Seventh Annual Convention, Democratic Party Convention, OK State Fed of Labor\nYour present plan is rated, not for the so-called blue collar people, it’s rated for white-collar and that thin gray line, the gray-collar worker. In many small businesses you don’t know who is blue-collar and who is white-collar, the boss often doing all kinds of work around the firm."
},
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"text": "1971, Richard Patrick Coleman, Social Status in the City, Jossey-Bass, page 68,\nAt the lower-middle level, the typical Negro male was a gray-collar worker in one of the civil services, worked for the railroads as a Pullman porter or dining car waiter, or owned a small business."
},
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"text": "1989, United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Efforts to Commercialize Superconductivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Government Printing Office, page 152,\nVocational training reaches greater fractions of the labor force in nations like West Germany; large Japanese companies invest more heavily in job-related training for blue- and gray-collar employees than do American firms."
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"word": "grey-collar"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to working-class professions",
"word": "灰領"
},
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"roman": "huīlǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to working-class professions",
"word": "灰领"
}
]
}
],
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"text": "1964, National Ice Association: Forty-Seventh Annual Convention, Democratic Party Convention, OK State Fed of Labor\nYour present plan is rated, not for the so-called blue collar people, it’s rated for white-collar and that thin gray line, the gray-collar worker. In many small businesses you don’t know who is blue-collar and who is white-collar, the boss often doing all kinds of work around the firm."
},
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"text": "1971, Richard Patrick Coleman, Social Status in the City, Jossey-Bass, page 68,\nAt the lower-middle level, the typical Negro male was a gray-collar worker in one of the civil services, worked for the railroads as a Pullman porter or dining car waiter, or owned a small business."
},
{
"text": "1989, United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Efforts to Commercialize Superconductivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Government Printing Office, page 152,\nVocational training reaches greater fractions of the labor force in nations like West Germany; large Japanese companies invest more heavily in job-related training for blue- and gray-collar employees than do American firms."
}
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"word": "grey-collar"
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"word": "grey collar"
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"sense": "pertaining to working-class professions",
"word": "灰領"
},
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"roman": "huīlǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to working-class professions",
"word": "灰领"
}
],
"word": "gray-collar"
}
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