OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occupational hazard mean? 

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

1. any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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