OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occupational disease mean? 

• OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

industrial disease; occupational disease

Hypernyms ("occupational disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)