industrial disease

1. 1.

   disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts)

   Synonymsoccupational disease

   Broaderdisease

Questions about industrial disease

What does industrial disease mean?

industrial disease means "disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts)".

What is another word for industrial disease?

Close synonyms include occupational disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is industrial disease a common word?

industrial disease 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.