golden handshake
golden handshake noun: a generous severance payment, especially as an inducement to leave employment.
Noun
golden handshake (plural golden handshakes)
- A generous severance payment, especially as an inducement to leave employment.
- Lloyds TSB's 1996 accounts show that the executive fallout following the takeover of TSB by Lloyds meant the departure of two executives clutching substantial golden handshakes.1997, Labour Research, volume 86, page 6
- Synonyms:
- silver handshake
golden handshake meaning in Tamil and Kannada
golden handshake in Tamil
- பொன்னான கைகுலுக்கு
golden handshake in Kannada
- ಸುವರ್ಣ ಹಸ್ತಲಾಘವ, ಚಿನ್ನದ ಕೈಕುಲುಕು
Synonyms of golden handshake
Forms of golden handshake
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Questions about golden handshake
- What does golden handshake mean?
- Golden handshake means a generous severance payment, especially as an inducement to leave employment.
- What is golden handshake in Tamil?
- Golden handshake in Tamil is பொன்னான கைகுலுக்கு. See Golden handshake meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is golden handshake?
- Golden handshake is a noun.
- What is the plural of golden handshake?
- The plural of golden handshake is golden handshakes.
Words near golden handshake in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: golden handshake (page history and authors); golden handshake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); golden handshake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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