0 a word written in brackets after a word that you have copied to show that you know it has been spelled or used wrongly:
1 used in brackets after a word or phrase copied from somewhere else to show the writer knows it appears to be wrong but this is intentional or exactly as in the original:
The sign said, "Closed on Wendsday" [sic].
2 abbreviation for Standard Industrial Classification: a system of numbers used in the US to organize industries and business activities into groups. This system has mainly been replaced by the NAICS:
Is it really true that sickle-cell anaemia (p. 7) is lethal earlier than thallassaemia (sic)?
Traditional criminology, it is argued, has resisted engagement with ' the elderly ' (sic) because it has focused instead on ' street ' and ' stranger ' crime.
Locally known as the ' educators' (sic) or ' intellectuals', they constitute a new group in regional politics.
Scholastic rationality with its sic et non could foster an understanding of plurality and a sense of unity in diversity.
