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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'green-collar' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions green-collar adjective (pos=green--collar, collar) Of or pertaining to both employment and the environment or environmentalism. 1976, Patrick Heffernan, "Jobs for the Environment " The Coming Green Collar Revolution", in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134, 1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 sic et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26, :The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new & 39;green collar& 39; jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs. 2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75, :Studies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing & 39;green collar& 39; workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises. Of or pertaining to rural, agriculture, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment. 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, &hellip;, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32, :American marihuana growers, who have more recently become known as America's "" workers because of the bright green color of their product, &hellip; 2004, Martin Heidenreich et al., Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge UK, page 394, :<table class="wikitable"><tr><td>Qualification structure of the workforce (%)</td><td>1980</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; Blue-collar</td><td align="center">29.7</td><td align="center">33.5</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; Green-collar</td><td align="center">21.2</td><td align="center">10.0</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; White-collar</td><td align="center">25.0</td><td align="center">31.7</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; Grey-collar</td><td align="center">24.0</td><td align="center">24.8</td></tr></table> Etymology: By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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