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
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
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
Historians' English is not a style; it is an industrial disease.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
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