severance

noun [U]

/ˈsev.ər.əns/

/-ɚ-/

Definition

› money paid by an employer to an employee whose job the employer has had to bring to an end: The management have offered employees one week's severance (pay) for each six months they have worked at the company. a severance agreement/deal/packageForms of money and methods of paymentEarning money and money earned › formal the act of ending a connection, relationship, etc. or of being separated from a person, place, etc.: The minister announced the severance of aid to the country. The hardest thing to cope with was the severance from his family.Causing something to endComing to an endFiring staff and being fired

(Definition of severance noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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