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Definition: DEAD-PAY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Dead-pay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: DEAD-PAY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "DEAD-PAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)