"severance payment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: severance payments [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} severance payment (plural severance payments)
  1. Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver. Wikipedia link: Severance package Synonyms: severance pay, severance
    Sense id: en-severance_payment-en-noun-h-CyGdod Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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