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sick calls

sick calls is the plural of sick call.

Meaning of sick call

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

Questions about sick calls

What is sick calls the plural of?
Sick calls is the plural of sick call.

Words near sick calls in the dictionary

  1. sick building syndrome
  2. sick buildings
  3. sick burn
  4. sick burns
  5. sick call
  6. sick calls
  7. sick club
  8. sick clubs
  9. sick day
  10. sick days
  11. sick headache

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