severance
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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
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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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