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green-collar
[ green-kol-er ]
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.
noun
- a green-collar worker.
green-collar
adjective
- of, relating to, or designating workers involved in environmental protection, or employed by companies that have protection of the environment as a stated aim
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Word History and Origins
Origin of green-collar1
First recorded in 1990–95; green (in the sense “environmentally sound or beneficial”), on the model of blue-collar ( def ), blue-collar ( def )
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Example Sentences
He saw the man's clothes part smoothly from his bowels, where the point had been inserted, up to the gray-green collar.
From Project Gutenberg
He certainly did seem to appreciate the honour, and bore himself proudly with the new green collar around his neck.
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