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
Mr Hughes concluded Mr Roberts and Ms David, who lived in hospital accommodation, concluded that they both died as a result of industrial disease.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 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 Harry Morgan Ayres
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