green-collar
adjEtymology
By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.
Definitions
Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.
Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment
Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.
- Blue-collar 29.7 33.5 Green-collar 21.2 10.0 White-collar 25.0 31.7 Grey-collar 24.0 24.8
The neighborhood
- neighborgreen-collar crime
- neighborgreen collar crime
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for green-collar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA