sick list

noun

1. a list of persons who are sick.

sick list

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sick list¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

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

Example Sentences

The League would hardly do anything with regard to the carrying out of their threat while Barry was on the sick-list.

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A full month later her sick-list was still seventy-seven, out of a total of less than four hundred.

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The complexion of the men became sallow, and every day numbers of them were put on the sick-list by the surgeons.

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From a further body of 150 men sent as a reinforcement, half were reported on the sick list the day after their arrival.

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These drawbacks, added to the lack of exercise and the constant wearing of clothes not yet dry, placed him on the sick list.

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