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

In January, an inquest ruled that Mrs Mahon "came by her death as a result of an industrial disease".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to his career and could be regarded as an "industrial disease," a coroner has said.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2020

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

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)