health hazard

1. 1.

   hazard to the health of those exposed to it

   Broaderhazard

   Narrowerbiohazard

Questions about health hazard

What does health hazard mean?

health hazard means "hazard to the health of those exposed to it".

Is health hazard a common word?

health hazard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.