industrial disease
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of industrial disease
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Mr Hughes concluded Mr Roberts and Ms David, who lived in hospital accommodation, concluded that they both died as a result of industrial disease.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023
Coroner Graeme Hughes said it was "more likely than not" both were exposed to the Covid-19 virus while at work and ruled they died of industrial disease.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023
Mike Myers calls celebrity “the industrial disease of creativity.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
Early in the 1920s Philip Guedalla charged into the battle of the books, shouting: "Historians' English is not a style; it is an industrial disease."
From Time Magazine Archive
The importance of these movements for us consists in their firm but tacit recognition of the fact, that an excessive supply of unskilled labour lies at the root of the industrial disease of "sweating."
From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
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