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单词 severance
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severance

(sevərəns)
1. uncountable noun
Severance from a person or group, or the severance of a connection, involves the ending of a relationship or connection.
[formal]
...his bitter sense of severance from his family. [+ from]
...the complete severance of diplomatic relations. [+ of]
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Severance pay is a sum of money that a company gives to its employees when it has to stop employing them.
[business]
We were offered 13 weeks' severance pay.

severance in British English

(ˈsɛvərəns)
noun
1. 
the act of severing or state of being severed
2. 
a separation
3.  law
the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc

severance in American English

(ˈsɛvərəns; ˈsɛvrəns)
noun
a severing or being severed
Word origin
ME < Anglo-Fr < OFr sevrance

Examples of 'severance' in a sentence
severance

With pay accumulated in the hospital, and six weeks ' severance money, he had thirty pounds in the bank.
Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR (2002)
I agreed with Flora that he probably couldn't or wouldn't fight the severance pay.
Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002)
They cried out, a vast inhuman cry of loss or despair or some totally indecipherable feeling, perhaps only an enormous severance, and fell.
Tepper, Sheri S. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS (2002)
A failed CEO these days gets fired - and is given millions in severance pay.
Luke Rhinehart THE BOOK OF THE DIE (2002)

In other languages
severance

British English: severance ADJECTIVE
Severance pay is a sum of money that a company gives to its employees when it has to stop employing them.
We were offered 13 weeks' severance pay.
  • American English: severance
  • Brazilian Portuguese: rescisório
  • Chinese: 离职的 >补偿金
  • European Spanish: de indemnización
  • French: de licenciement
  • German: Abfindungs-
  • Italian: di licenziamento
  • Japanese: 解雇手当
  • Korean: 퇴직의
  • European Portuguese: rescisório
  • Latin American Spanish: de indemnización
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