sick list

American  

noun

1. a list of persons who are sick.

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idioms

1. on the sick list, in poor health; not well; ill.

sick list British  

noun

1. a list of the sick, esp in the army or navy

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Etymology

Origin of sick list

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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sick list

For the first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

In restless Barcelona, where the Reds had hoped to put on their most impressive performance, even men on sick list went off to their factories.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swept into office by a landslide vote, the dumpling-shaped doctor decided that only a daring gamble would ever get Okayama off the economic sick list.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have already nearly eighty cases on the sick list, chiefly amongst the new hands from Ottawa who are not yet acclimatized.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell