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severance payments

severance payments is the plural of severance payment.

Meaning of severance payment

Noun

severance payment (plural severance payments)

  1. Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.
    • And it gets worse. Barcelona will have to pay even more if he is fired in the interim. Last week, TV3 reported that a high severance payment - amounting to a total of about 12m euros - is on the table.2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport

Questions about severance payments

What is severance payments the plural of?
Severance payments is the plural of severance payment.

Words near severance payments in the dictionary

  1. severalty
  2. Severan
  3. severance
  4. severance pay
  5. severance payment
  6. severance payments
  7. severance tax
  8. severance taxes
  9. severances
  10. Severas
  11. severation

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