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 it

  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)