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单词 severance
释义
severance
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A severance is the ending of a connection or relationship. A terrible argument between you and your cousin could turn into a all-out feud and eventually a complete severance between the two branches of your family.
The noun severance implies a separation or cut of some kind, like a severance between your father and the political party with which he has become disenchanted. If you cut off relations with a person, group, or organization, you've initiated a severance. The phrase "severance pay" means the deal a company offers to an employee who's being fired. Severance comes from the word sever, "to cut," whose origin is the Latin separare, or "separate."
WORD FAMILY
severance: severances+/sever: severable, severance, severed, severing, severs/severing: severings
USAGE EXAMPLES
Absent severance of these connections by divestiture, potential legal liability and controversy will continue to exist.
Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016)
Second, the court will look at whether the evidence was sufficient to convict Severance in any of the three murders.
Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016)
During his tenure, critics raised questions about Lewandowski’s continuing role as an informal adviser to Trump and what the campaign characterized as monthly severance payments.
Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016)
1n the act of severing
Syn|Hyper
severing
cut, cutting
the act of cutting something into parts
2n a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper
breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture
Great Schism
the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
schism
the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
breakup, detachment, separation
coming apart
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