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silver handshake

silver handshake noun: a severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring.

Noun

silver handshake (plural silver handshakes)

  1. (idiomatic, human resources, labour) A severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring.

Forms of silver handshake

pluralsilver handshakes

Questions about silver handshake

What does silver handshake mean?
Silver handshake means a severance package offered to an employee, often a middle managers or long-term staff member, who is forced into early retirement or leave due to company restructuring.
What part of speech is silver handshake?
Silver handshake is a noun.
What is the plural of silver handshake?
The plural of silver handshake is silver handshakes.

Words near silver handshake in the dictionary

  1. silver goals
  2. silver grain
  3. silver gull
  4. silver gulls
  5. silver hake
  6. silver handshake
  7. silver handshakes
  8. silver hell
  9. silver hells
  10. silver jubilee
  11. silver jubilees

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