Severance

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of severing.
  • noun. The condition of being severed.
  • noun. Separation; partition.
  • noun. Severance pay.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; separation; the act of dividing or disuniting; partition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
  • noun. The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
  • noun. A separation.
  • noun. A severance payment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of severing
  • noun. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
  • Word Usage
    "“You know where the term severance pay comes from, Scot?” said Longo as he hung the clipboard on a peg inside the cabinet and locked it again."
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