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

A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Now & then he put one of them on the sick list.

From Time Magazine Archive

The state of health of the ship's company was excellent, there being but eight on the sick list, of whom only two were seriously ill.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von