Usually means: Payment for work not performed.
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  1. dead-pay: Wordnik
  2. dead-pay: Wiktionary
  3. Dead-pay: Dictionary.com
  4. Dead-pay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. dead-pay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Dead-pay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. dead-pay: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Dead-pay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead-pay)

noun:  Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
noun:  A dead soldier whose pay is illicitly claimed by another person.

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