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Industrial disease   /ɪndˈəstriəl dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Industrial disease

noun
1.
Disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts).  Synonym: occupational disease.






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"Industrial disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... Allen, who loved all men, took up the argument. If those working men had been killed in a mine disaster, caused by criminal carelessness and greed for profits; if they had died of some industrial disease which might easily have been prevented; if they had been burned in a factory without fire-escapes—nobody in Wall Street would have wanted to go to war. And, of course, every Socialist considered this was true; every Socialist saw quite clearly that the enormity of the Lusitania sinking ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair



Words linked to "Industrial disease" :   occupational disease, disease



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