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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
severance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
package
▪ He used it to get a good severance package.
▪ They took their generous severance packages to incubate an entirely different lifestyle.
pay
▪ Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
▪ There will, of course, be no severance pay, and a reference is out of the question.
▪ He would not answer questions about the lack of severance pay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kramer reportedly got severance worth tens of millions.
▪ the severance of all economic ties between the two nations
▪ The company has a voluntary severance and early retirement program.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Approximately 1, 700 employees who work at seven Emporiums that are being liquidated are eligible for severance.
▪ From that moment on, my severance with the old modes of reality was complete.
▪ He gains another month of severance each subsequent year.
▪ In addition, anyone forced to move more than 35 miles to another job location could quit and get severance.
▪ It is hoped that the run down can be achieved by voluntary severance and redeployment.
▪ One of them reportedly calls for two months severance plus a month for every year worked.
▪ She said the brothers would not receive additional severance for resigning from the board.
▪ Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Severance

Severance \Sev"er*ance\, n.

  1. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
    --Milman.

  2. (Law) 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.
    --Bouvier.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
severance

early 15c., from Anglo-French, from Old French sevrance "separation, parting," from sevrer (see sever). Meaning "discharge from employment contract" is attested from 194

  1. Severance pay attested by 194

Wiktionary
severance

n. 1 The act of severing or the state of being severed. 2 A separation. 3 A severance payment.

WordNet
severance
  1. n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, rift, falling out]

  2. the act of severing [syn: severing]

Gazetteer
Severance, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 597
Housing Units (2000): 207
Land area (2000): 2.069528 sq. miles (5.360053 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.065733 sq. miles (0.170248 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.135261 sq. miles (5.530301 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69150
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.535208 N, 104.850761 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Severance, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 108
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.767644 N, 95.250303 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66087
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Severance

Severance may refer to:

Severance (film)

Severance is a 2006 British-German comedy horror film co-written and directed by Christopher Smith. Co-written with James Moran, it stars Danny Dyer and Laura Harris. The film tells a story of group of co-workers who go to a remote mountain forest in Hungary, where they become victims of murderous attacks.

Severance received mostly positive reviews. In 2009, media interest in the film was revived following the alleged copycat murder of a UK teenager.

Severance (album)

Severance is the debut album by Australian melodic death metal band Daysend. It was released by Chatterbox Records in Australia on 3 November 2003 and in the United States by Metal Blade and Europe by Locomotive Records in November 2004. The song "Beggars With Knives" was included on the Faultline Records compilation album Metal for the Brain 2005 in 2005. Severance took ten days to record and was produced by DW Norton and Nik Tropiano.

Severance (land)

A severance is the act of severing a piece of land from a larger tract of land. The severed parcel of land becomes a separate lot.

In many jurisdictions, land use laws require that severances of land occur in an orderly fashion by way of plans of subdivision, especially when multiple lots are being created. In order to avoid the sometimes complicated and lengthy subdivision process, some jurisdictions allow severances of a minor nature to proceed without a plan of subdivision, as long as other criteria are met. The approval of such minor severances are often referred to as "consents", and the authority to grant consents is usually given to local planning bodies such as committees of adjustment or land division committees. Colloquially, the term "severance" is often used to solely refer to such minor land divisions rather than to divisions undertaken by way of the more complicated subdivision process.

Usage examples of "severance".

Give me the severance payoff, go land a twenty-five-year-old with all her parts working as advertised, and even now start a family.

But though the experiments which I have made on the decomposition of vapors by light might be numbered by the thousand, I have, to my regret, encountered no fact which prove that free aqueous vapor is decomposed by the solar rays, or that the sun is reheated by the combination of gases, in the severance of which it had previously sacrificed its heat.

The rough and undulating rent which marked the severance of the building was now thickly covered with ivy, which in its gamesome luxuriance had contrived also to climb up a remaining stack of tall chimneys, and to spread over the covering of the large oriel window.

But we know The Austrian knot began their severance, And that the Polish question largens it.

Some, too, have told at whiles that rightfully Its warefulness, Its care, this planet lost When in her early growth and crudity By bad mad acts of severance men contrived, Working such nescience by their own device.

An anesthetist unceremoniously pried open the snooded jaw and sprayed cocaine down the windpipe, while an IV team deftly slipped catheters into the carotid arteries to oxygenate the brain directly after severance.

Brulet, Van Esh, Farmer, Ponteau, Regnault, and Rosenberg cite instances of reunion of a digit after amputation or severance.

Lots of big-name lawyers would be be eager to offer counsel, especially after ogling that humongous severance package.

Harry centred his attention upon the students and the grisettes, as being the newest element that the show could furnish him after his long severance from Quartier Latin ways.

And in the last mail, an unexpected three month severance pay arrived with a polite note from Tess Struan thanking him for his services.

As a Reserve officer, Coleman had always tried harder than regular officers of the same rank, but the positive knowledge that he could be booted out of the service any day, without a reason, unlike RA officers, and without getting a dime in severance pay, either, had affected his decision-making ability.

But we know The Austrian knot began their severance, And that the Polish question largens it.

The nameless temple therefore provides you with fifteen shekels for your severance.

This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.

He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.