单词 | disabled list |
释义 | disabled listn. 1. An (actual or notional) list of people who are unable to perform their usual or expected duties or roles. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > sick-list sick-list1748 blacklist1853 disabled list1864 1864 J. S. Preston Let. 5 Sept. in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1900) 4th Ser. III. 619 The supply of officers for the conscript service is under existing regulations exclusively from the disabled list, and is altogether insufficient to furnish the Bureau with enrolling officers suitable for the ordinary duties to be performed by them. 1880 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 8 Officer Kramer was attended by Police Surgeon Maclay, and placed on the disabled list. He will not be able to do duty for several days. 1950 E. Watkins Cautious Revol.: Brit. Today & Tomorrow iii. xiii. 238 In order to qualify, the firms must employ at least half their payroll from the disabled list. 1986 National Rev. 14 Feb. 1 Of this we can be positive enough: medical insurance is on the disabled list right now. 2003 D. Lipsky Absolutely Amer. i. 37 Cadets on the disabled list..wear sneakers, walk with crutches. 2. Baseball. A list of players who, due to illness or injury, are suspended from play for a specified period, allowing substitute players to be added temporarily to the team roster. Hence, in other sports: any list on which injured competitors can be placed, thus allowing the competitor or his or her team various privileges.In baseball, there are typically several different disabled lists, of different periods; the lengths of these periods, and the rules governing the assignment of a player to a list, have varied over time. ΚΠ 1887 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. 2 Catcher Buckley, of the Syracuse Stars, is the latest addition to the disabled list. 1941 Baseball Blue Bk. 204 A player incapacitated to render service may be placed on the disabled list upon application by his club to its League President. 1975 R. Angell in New Yorker 23 June 57/1 He was struck on the right forearm by a ball..and spent a month on the disabled list. 1991 Sports Illustr. 17 June 94/3 The Jockeys' Guild placed him on the permanently disabled list. 1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 16 July e5/3 Second baseman Mark Lemke, suffering from post-concussive syndrome after a basepath collision.., was moved from the 15-day to the 60-day disabled list. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864 |
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