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severance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| Type of | breakup, detachment, separation |
| Has types | schism |
| Derivation | sever |
Examples of severance
severance
The company plans to offer workers severance packages and outplacement services.
From the bloomberg.com
A severance payment to her should have been recorded as a political expenditure.
From the post-gazette.com
We are offering severance packages and outplacement services to these employees.
From the techcrunch.com
The mother's salvation has been the severance she received after being laid off.
From the newsobserver.com
Mr. Liddy will also be eligible for a bonus in 2010 and won't get any severance.
From the washingtontimes.com
Smaller severance packages will add to the financial strain of laid-off workers.
From the online.wsj.com
He figures he has the savings and severance pay to tide him over for six months.
From the news-journalonline.com
The county received more than $4 million in severance taxes in fiscal year 2008.
From the denverpost.com
Comfort, who had a salary of $179,000, will receive six months of severance pay.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Rupture: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- The act of severing
- Severance is the debut album by Australian melodic death metal band Daysend. It was released by Chatterbox Records in Australia on 3 November 2003 and in the US by Metal Blade and Europe by Locomotive Records in November 2004. ...
- Severance (2006) is a British comedy horror film, written by James Moran, directed by Christopher Smith, and starring Danny Dyer and Laura Harris. In 2009, media interest in the film was revived following the alleged copycat murder of a UK teenager.
- In policy debate, a permutation is an argument made by the 2AC to test the competition of a counterplan or kritik testing the comparative desirability of the plan and all or part of the counterplan or kritik against the counterplan or kritik by itself. ...
- Severance is the debut album of the melodic metalcore band Steryle, released in 2007.
- Severances is one of three albums by Masami Akita under the alias 'S.C.U.M.'. The album was released as a cassette. The album was later reissued into CD format as part of Merzbox.
- If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction then such Term or Condition shall be severed and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive and remain in full force and effect and ...
- Changing an item of real estate to personal property by detaching it from the land; for example, cutting down a tree.
