green-collar

[ green-kol-er ]

/ ˈgrinˈkɒl ər /

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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 Also green collar .

a green-collar worker.

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Origin of green-collar

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

Words nearby green-collar

greenbottle, greenbottle fly, greenbrier, greenbug, green card, green-collar, green corn, green crab, Green Cross Code, Greendale, green dragon

How to use green-collar in a sentence

I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
GOP leaders refused; they saw that Duke was pulling blue-collar Democrats to the party.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
Children's Ways|James Sully

British Dictionary definitions for green-collar

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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