severance
Example Sentences
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Florida; Nevada; Texas; and Utah in a lurch with little notice, no severance and scrambling to fulfill a surge of orders from customers clamoring to get their last tastes.
From Los Angeles Times
She received six months’ salary as severance, she said.
She might have jumped with another offer in hand but, without one, she waited for the ax to fall and got three months’ severance.
Many did not see the severance of this partnership coming - and certainly not the timing.
From BBC
And private-sector workers who were laid off in the spring or summer are running through their own severance packages.
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