Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammatory disease of the lungs due to inhalation of irritating particles.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
pneumoconiosis .
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- noun chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles
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Examples
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Most importantly, you attack MPs who support dangerous industries when they provide jobs in their own constituencies but you ignore the actions of this fat, old, bullying dypso who spent his entire career defening the glorious right of his constituents to die of pneumonoconiosis - a condition that had killed his own father.
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I accept that there were few alternatives to coal for most of the 20th century, but there certainly was by the mid 1980s when many Labour MPs supported a year long strike in order that miners could continue going underground in order to contract pneumonoconiosis.
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Most importantly, you attack MPs who support dangerous industries when they provide jobs in their own constituencies but tou ignore the actions of this fat, old, bullying dypso who spent his entire career defening the glorious right of his constituents to die of pneumonoconiosis - a condition that had killed his own father.
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