combat pay

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   extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat

   Broaderwage

Questions about combat pay

What does combat pay mean?

combat pay means "extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat".

Is combat pay a common word?

combat pay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.