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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Belonging to the dead.
  • legal: One who has died. In '''property law''', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In '''criminal law''', ?the deceased? refers to the victim of a homicide.
  • No longer alive

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Noun:

  • A dead person
  • legal: One who has died. In '''property law''', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In '''criminal law''', ?the deceased? refers to the victim of a homicide.
  • (''plural'' '''deceased''') dead people

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