The practice of receiving compensation, benefits, etc., from two or more sources in a way that is considered to be unethical; as from a military pension and a government job: The practice of double dipping disturbs a lot of people who feel fortunate if they can just have one good retirement to live on.

Someone needs to explain how a state employee who retired after more than thirty-four years and then returned to work nine years later, was able to get by with double dipping (drawing two separate incomes at the same time) by receiving nearly $85,000 in one year, or two and half times more than she did before she retired.

1. A pair of stars that appear close together in the sky only because they lie in the same direction from the earth, and not because they are physically associated binary stars.
2. A system containing two or more stars.

In a true double, the stars are physically close to each other; in an optical double, they lie in approximately the same direction from the earth and so appear close to each other, but are actually far apart.

A reference to duplicity or deception which is used to achieve a special objective which may not be honest. (1)