dead-pay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the payroll.
  2. A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.

Word forms

dead-pay dead-pays

Related words

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