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severance

[sev-er-uhns, sev-ruhns] / ˈsɛv ər əns, ˈsɛv rəns /


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The Cabinet Office's accounts, external show there was "contractual compensation" of £332,897 and "additional severance" of £526,598.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The accounts state Sir Keir authorised the "special severance package" on 16 February.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

After quitting his job, he had invested half of his severance pay into semiconductor stocks and saw $7,200 evaporate in a week.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Carvalho ultimately relinquished his right to severance by resigning — while avoiding the possibility of dismissal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Isoult began to cry at this, which cut her deeper than all the severances she had known.

From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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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