See silver handshake in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "silver handshakes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "silver handshake (plural silver handshakes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Human resources",
"orig": "en:Human resources",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Labour",
"orig": "en:Labour",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "golden handshake"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring."
],
"id": "en-silver_handshake-en-noun-ixtcPLat",
"links": [
[
"human resources",
"human resources"
],
[
"labour",
"labour"
],
[
"severance",
"severance"
],
[
"package",
"package"
],
[
"offered",
"offered"
],
[
"employee",
"employee"
],
[
"middle manager",
"middle manager"
],
[
"long-term",
"long-term"
],
[
"staff",
"staff"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"forced",
"forced"
],
[
"early",
"early"
],
[
"retirement",
"retirement"
],
[
"leave",
"leave"
],
[
"company",
"company"
],
[
"restructuring",
"restructuring"
]
],
"qualifier": "human resources; labour; human resources; labour",
"raw_glosses": [
"(human resources, labour, idiomatic) A severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "silver handshake"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "silver handshakes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "silver handshake (plural silver handshakes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Human resources",
"en:Labour"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "golden handshake"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring."
],
"links": [
[
"human resources",
"human resources"
],
[
"labour",
"labour"
],
[
"severance",
"severance"
],
[
"package",
"package"
],
[
"offered",
"offered"
],
[
"employee",
"employee"
],
[
"middle manager",
"middle manager"
],
[
"long-term",
"long-term"
],
[
"staff",
"staff"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"forced",
"forced"
],
[
"early",
"early"
],
[
"retirement",
"retirement"
],
[
"leave",
"leave"
],
[
"company",
"company"
],
[
"restructuring",
"restructuring"
]
],
"qualifier": "human resources; labour; human resources; labour",
"raw_glosses": [
"(human resources, labour, idiomatic) A severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "silver handshake"
}
Download raw JSONL data for silver handshake meaning in English (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.