occupational 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)

   Synonymsindustrial disease

   Broaderdisease

Questions about occupational disease

What does occupational disease mean?

occupational 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 occupational disease?

Close synonyms include industrial 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 occupational disease a common word?

occupational 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.