dead-pay (English, noun)
expansion: dead-pay (countable and uncountable, plural dead-pays)
expansion: (military)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: dead-pays
tags: plural