green-collar

[ green-kol-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

noting or relating to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems:
green-collar careers in renewable energy and other technologies.
noting or relating to actions that negatively affect the environment:
green-collar crime such as illegal logging.

green-collar

of, relating to, or designating workers involved in environmental protection, or employed by companies that have protection of the environment as a stated aim

First recorded in 1990–95; green (in the sense “environmentally sound or beneficial”), on the model of blue-collar ( def ), blue-collar ( def )

He saw the man's clothes part smoothly from his bowels, where the point had been inserted, up to the gray-green collar.

He certainly did seem to appreciate the honour, and bore himself proudly with the new green collar around his neck.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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