casual contact

American  

noun

1. the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.

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Example Sentences

Mpox is unlikely to spread through casual contact, or in close quarters like on a plane or in an office or store, state health officials say.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

They find that others still prefer to keep their distance, despite the fact that the disease isn’t spread through casual contact and 95% of people are naturally immune.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Morrison, who had been deemed a casual contact after attending an event last week along with a COVID-infected person, said he has been cleared to fly interstate to Queensland after negative test results.

From Reuters • Dec. 15, 2021

The Australian Olympic Committee said three of its athletes were still being kept isolated after “a brief casual contact with a U.S. track and field athlete who had tested positive.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Whenever he met her, even if it were only a brief, casual contact, for hours afterward he could not drive her out of his mind.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney