Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

severance payment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: sev-er-ance -pay-ment
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

severance payments (plural)

Synonyms

severance pay severance

Questions

What does severance payment mean?: 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.

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