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Definition
pay and potentially other benefits given to an employee whose job is eliminated
- He had then suggested that Nancy discontinue "seeing so much of Bobby," advising her that a slow retreat now would hurt less than an abrupt severance later-for, as he reminded her, it was a parting that must eventually take place.1 — Last To See Them Alive (8% in)
There are no more uses of "severance" in In Cold Blood.
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