Etymology

mortpay

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Today it means: The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. Full definition →

French mort
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The story

  1. French · derived frommort“dead”
  2. English todaymortpay

From French mort (“dead”) + English pay.

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