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Occupational disease

noun

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

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... takes them seriously and gets ready for trouble with a lot of policemen, which you know as well as I do, Abe, when the police gets ready for trouble they usually find it, even if they have to make it themselves. The consequence is, Abe, that a fractured skull has become practically the occupational disease of being a socialist, just the same as phosphorus-poisoning attacked people which worked in match-factories in the old days before the Swedish manufacturers invented matches which strike only on the box one time out of fifty if the ...

— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass

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