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OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
industrial disease; occupational disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("occupational disease" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)