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

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

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

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 Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)