severances
- plural of severance.
Example Sentences
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Discovery told investors that the cost of the downsizing would exceed $1 billion, to pay severances among other expenses.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2023
“I asked him repeatedly if the governor had approved or knew about any of his severances or payments, and Roy repeatedly refused to say that was the case,” Mayer said Thursday.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021
Still, newspapers with strong guilds – the New York Times and Washington Post – have seen fewer layoffs and less brutal severances, on the whole, than those without.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2013
His retirement occasioned genuine grief to the King; and of all the severances which he had to undergo, this was probably that which affected Bismarck most.
From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by Headlam, James Wycliffe
How other nations lined up on the one side and the other is indicated by the State Department's list of war declarations, and diplomatic severances, which follows: Austria against Belgium, Aug.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew
