"dead-pay" meaning in All languages combined

See dead-pay on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: dead-pays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dead-pay (countable and uncountable, plural dead-pays)
  1. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dead-pay-en-noun-AWs9PWXq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41
  2. A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dead-pay-en-noun-ATTDF5r6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mortpay

Inflected forms

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