combat pay
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈkɒmbæt peɪ/
- Formal
:
pago de combate
- Every soldier in a designated hostile zone still gets full combat pay, but it is just calculated daily, not monthly.
- receive combat pay
Examples
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My combat pay gets deposited on the 15th of every month.
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Once I finished my tour in Vietnam, my plan was to take my combat pay and go to Italy.
Fiction book (1992) -
I should get combat pay.
Fiction book (1996) -
If you are in the country for 15 days of a month, you get combat pay for those 15 days.
Blog text (4) -
Now they are taking combat pay away, with no cuts to their pay.
Blog text (4) -
If you're in the country, you should get combat pay, as little as it is.
Blog text (4) -
Soldiers draw various entitlements like foreign duty and combat pay for serving in a war zone.
Blog text (11) -
Yes, your combat pay will only be paid on the days you're in a hostile area.
Blog text (4) -
Every man or woman that goes overseas and is front line or a grunt needs to receive combat pay.
Blog text (4) -
Soldiers stationed in active combat zones receive combat pay as extra compensation.
Synonyms
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1.3
Money you earn in addition to your regular pay
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'extra money paid to military personnel serving in active combat zones' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'combat' (armed engagement) with 'pay' (remuneration); a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to pay related to combat, plausibly an additional allowance for service in combat zones. This straightforward noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic way to form such terms, so it should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Combat pay comes from the military practice of giving extra money to soldiers who are in the actual fighting; combat means 'fighting' and pay means 'money'. That's why combat pay means 'extra money paid to military personnel who are serving in active combat zones'.