"golden handcuffs" meaning in English

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          "text": "The stock plan really served as golden handcuffs for the executives."
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        "Any arrangement or agreement designed to provide extremely favorable benefits or pay, so as to discourage a participant from choosing to leave it, especially to retain a choice employee in a role that is unpleasant to them."
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        "(idiomatic) Any arrangement or agreement designed to provide extremely favorable benefits or pay, so as to discourage a participant from choosing to leave it, especially to retain a choice employee in a role that is unpleasant to them."
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          "word": "golden handshake"
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          "word": "golden hello"
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          "word": "golden parachute"
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        {
          "word": "job lock"
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          "word": "velvet handcuffs"
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