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severance

 
 
/ˈsevərəns/ noun [U]

Translation

when an employer forces an employee to leave a job
işten ayrılmaya/çıkmaya zorlama
severance pay 1438
(Definition of severance noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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