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severance

[sev-er-uhns, sev-ruhns] / ˈsɛv ər əns, ˈsɛv rəns /


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The company said it aims to transfer baristas with closing stores, and offer severance to those who exit the chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Two voluntary severance schemes have now run at the institution, with previous rounds focused on professional services staff who work alongside academics.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The accounts state Sir Keir authorised the "special severance package" on 16 February.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Carvalho ultimately relinquished his right to severance by resigning — while avoiding the possibility of dismissal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“If anything like this occurs again, all of your fathers will be dismissed without severance. Anybody know what severance is? Annie?”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

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

Between these phases again there are no sharp severances; each phase resolves and melts imperceptibly into that which follows.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson




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