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sickie
/ˈsɪki/ noun [C] UK informal WORKPLACEDefinition
› a day when a worker says they are ill when they are not, in order to stay at home and not go to work: pull/throw/take a sickie I pulled a sickie and went to see a film.
(Definition of sickie noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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