green-collar

[ green-kol-er ]

adjective
  1. 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.

  2. noting or relating to actions that negatively affect the environment: green-collar crime such as illegal logging.

nounAlso green collar .
  1. a green-collar worker.

Origin of green-collar

1
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

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How to use green-collar in a sentence

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

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

    Carolyn of the Corners | Ruth Belmore Endicott

British Dictionary definitions for green-collar

green-collar

adjective
  1. 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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