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mortpay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mort-pay
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

mortpays (plural)

Questions

What does mortpay mean?
The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
Where does mortpay come from?
It is traced to French.

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