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pink collar

pink collar is the alternative form of pink-collar.

Meaning of pink-collar

Adjective

pink-collar (comparative more pink-collar, superlative most pink-collar)

  1. Of or pertaining to employees in predominantly female service industries.
    • Black men have tended to congregate in laborers' jobs and certain service occupations, young workers in trade and such service enterprises as gas stations (to a lesser extent also in laborers' jobs), and women in the so-called "pink collar" occupations in trade, the services, and clerical work in...1977, Glenn Siebert, Employment Service Potential: Indicators of Labor Market Activity, Sacramento, Calif.: Employment Research Section, California Employment Development Department, →OCLC, page 115

Forms of pink collar

comparativemore pink collar
superlativemost pink collar

Questions about pink collar

What is pink collar the alternative form of?
Pink collar is the alternative form of pink-collar.

Words near pink collar in the dictionary

  1. pink cloud syndrome
  2. pink clouding
  3. pink cocaine
  4. pink cockatoo
  5. pink cockatoos
  6. pink collar
  7. pink contract
  8. pink contracts
  9. pink cornworm
  10. pink cornworms
  11. pink disease

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