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1928 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. 20/4 The $6,000,000 is needed to guarantee the care and proper outplacement of the last 32, 131 orphans for whom the Near East Relief is still wholly or partially responsible.

1930 J. L. Barton Story of near East Relief xii. 171 The Armenians in Egypt and France were enlisted to care for groups of Armenian orphans who were sent to both those countries for outplacement in Armenian homes and establishments of business.

1995 J. M. Kauffman et al. Issues in Educ. Placement vii. 178 Whereas teachers reported that all 15 types of information studied by Zabel et al. were available upon reintegration [of students with emotional or behavioural disorders], only two thirds (10) of those sources of information were available when making outplacements.

1948 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 42 176 Outplacement programs of the federal government.

1970 Daily Tel. 10 July 4/6 Employers with unwanted executives..resort to ‘the dehiring process’ or ‘executive outplacement’.

1984 Times 5 July 27/1 The concept of outplacement, which comes from the United States, is a euphemism which might straightforwardly be described as severance.

2001 Chicago Tribune 11 Nov. iv. 2/2 The sooner an outplacement consultant meets with the terminated executive, the sooner the individual will be thinking positively about their future.