physicals
- 1Plural of physical.
The company requires annual physicals for everyone working in the field.
Recruits lined up at the medical office for their physicals before basic training.
Note
A regular plural built on a clipped phrase: a physical is a physical examination with the noun dropped, and the shortened form takes -s like any other noun. Workplaces, schools and recruiters schedule physicals. The same plural also serves the spiritualist noun, for manifestations said to take solid shape, as ectoplasm does. Context keeps the two apart, and the adjective physical never takes the -s at all.
physicals is a form of physical
physical, noun: A medical examination of the body, typically performed by a doctor to assess general health. Full entry
- Forms
- physicalphysicals plural
- Spelling
- physical → physicals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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