industrial disease

American  

noun

1. occupational disease.

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industrial disease British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of industrial disease

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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

It is all a waste of time, and, through its ultimate failure and disappointments, an intensification of an industrial disease.

From Towards the Great Peace by Cram, Ralph Adams