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HEALTH HAZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health hazard mean? 

HEALTH HAZARD (noun)
  The noun HEALTH HAZARD has 1 sense:

1. hazard to the health of those exposed to itplay

  Familiarity information: HEALTH HAZARD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEALTH HAZARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Hazard to the health of those exposed to it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("health hazard" is a kind of...):

endangerment; hazard; jeopardy; peril; risk (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health hazard"):

biohazard (hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions)


 Context examples 


It represents an ecological problem and health hazard.

(Industrial Waste, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)



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