industrial disease
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of industrial disease
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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At the inquest the family had argued for a conclusion of death by industrial disease, while the health board had made the case for ruling that the death was from natural causes.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023
The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to his career and could be regarded as an "industrial disease," a coroner has said.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2020
Mike Myers calls celebrity “the industrial disease of creativity.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
But the hardship and wretchedness of this year's "starvation strike" appeared to be not the result of sudden conflict, but the festering of a chronic 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 J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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