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

But, perhaps most notable, only about half of the 30,000 children infected with hepatitis B got it from their mothers; the other half contracted it through casual contact, likely from other household contacts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Since then, I have had only casual contact with Smith, who served as SMC’s spokesman for many years.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2023

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

But an autopsy suggested more than casual contact, records and interviews show.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2021

In our casual contact with aliens, however, it is the offensive rather than the pleasing traits that impress us.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra