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sick call

noun

, Military.
  1. a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
  2. the period during which this formation is held.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sick call1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

They would insist always on accompanying me home from a night sick-call.

At such an hour a roll-call would be due, or a sick-call, or a guard-mount call, or a headquarters call.

Father Desmond O'Connor was, in fact, meditating a practical joke as he hurried on his sick call this hot summer's night.

The surgeon was absent on a sick-call, but his wife, flattered by a visit from the landowner, entertained him lavishly.

Reported at sick call (the first time since I left Vicksburg) and was excused from duty.

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