sick list

1. 1.

   a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc)

   Broaderlist

Questions about sick list

What does sick list mean?

sick list means "a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc)".

Is sick list a common word?

sick list is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.