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severance

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


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Then, in June, the company said Friend would step down as CFO within two months, and leave the company in early September with $6 million in cash severance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

That program, Nike said, includes around $1 billion of pre-tax charges, “primarily consisting of employee-related costs,” as well as roughly $300 million in severance costs recognized in the last fiscal year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Those who are unable to transfer will receive severance support, Starbucks said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The Cabinet Office's accounts, external show there was "contractual compensation" of £332,897 and "additional severance" of £526,598.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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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