severance
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In his exit, Kubasik surrendered $58 million worth of unvested stock and severance payments that would have been worth about $9 million, according to data-provider Equilar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
They signed confidentiality agreements in return for severance pay, and fear that speaking publicly could hurt their chances of finding work in an industry which has a small network.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Carvalho ultimately relinquished his right to severance by resigning — while avoiding the possibility of dismissal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The company said the stark increase in its expenses for the quarter was tied to legal and severance costs, and operating income would have been up 9% without those charges.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Thus, while the bearer is no longer a member of our scholastic family, it is highly important that his severance with the college be executed as painlessly as possible.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Discovery told investors that the cost of the downsizing would exceed $1 billion, to pay severances among other expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
“I asked him repeatedly if the governor had approved or knew about any of his severances or payments, and Roy repeatedly refused to say that was the case,” Mayer said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Still, newspapers with strong guilds – the New York Times and Washington Post – have seen fewer layoffs and less brutal severances, on the whole, than those without.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2013
This advance in the division of labour is marked by such severances as we note in the thirteenth century of the cloth merchant from the tailor or the leather merchant from the butcher.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
The cut ends were smashed so that they could not be crammed down over the tapering jets; but we could use our metal-saws for cleaner severances at the other ends.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Harry Bates
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