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sick call

sick call noun: a daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.

Noun

sick call (plural sick calls)

  1. (US) A daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.
  2. The opportunity that allows prisoners to request medical attention.
    • Ten prisons have sick call twice a day and three handle such complaints three times a day .1940, Wayne Lyman Morse, The Attorney General's Survey of Release Procedures
    • In the health care system in corrections, periodically we will find people who will want to go to sick call, and correctional officers will say, "You just want to goof off, you don't need medical care." In the correctional setting we need that kind of [serological] information so that this person...1985 December 7, Christine Guilfoy, Bailus Walker, “Quarantine Is No Way To Fight AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 9

Forms of sick call

pluralsick calls

Questions about sick call

What does sick call mean?
Sick call means a daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.
What part of speech is sick call?
Sick call is a noun.
What is the plural of sick call?
The plural of sick call is sick calls.

Words near sick call in the dictionary

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  8. sick club
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  10. sick day
  11. sick days

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