industrial disease
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of industrial disease
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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A coroner concluded 65-year-old Gareth Roberts died of "industrial disease", having probably contracted Covid-19 at work.
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
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
Machinery thus figures as the efficient cause of industrial disease, but the real responsibility does not rest on the shoulders of the inventor of new machinery, or of the manufacturer, but of the consumer.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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