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industrial disease

American  
industrial disease British  

noun

  1. any disease to which workers in a particular industry are prone

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of industrial disease

First recorded in 1905–10

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In January, an inquest ruled that Mrs Mahon "came by her death as a result of an industrial disease".

From BBC Jun. 2, 2023

Mr Turner said while the civil claim is a separate legal process from the inquest, the coroner's conclusion of industrial disease was "very important" and "highly relevant to the follow-on claim."

From BBC Mar. 8, 2023

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

Historians' English is not a style; it is an industrial disease.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

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