How to Use severance in a Sentence

severance

noun
Definition of severancenext
Synonyms for severancenext
  • At 31, he was laid off and used his severance to start over.
    — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Jagger paid off the bills, the employees’ salaries and their severance.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Focus on getting the severance you were promised and a great reference for a new job.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The city hasn’t yet released details of any severance package for Greene.
    — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In some cases, my clients received two incomes for a while, the severance income and the new job income.
    — Robert Hellmann, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Focus now on getting the severance you were promised along with a great reference for a new job.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The company laid off a bunch of people, eating $3.4 million in severance costs alone over the next few months.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Gerber’s contract with the city of Shawnee states that his firing without cause would require the city to pay six months worth of his salary as severance.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But each of those executives is set to walk away with a hefty severance package.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Fox News withheld over 30% of the settlement for taxes like they would for a payment of wages or a severance payment.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Those who aren't accepted for new roles will receive four months of severance.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Kinney, who was making around $21.75 an hour, took the third option: walking away with two months’ severance.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • The typical formula for a severance package is one or two weeks of pay for each year of service.
    — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Come up with a name for a company that offers this severance service.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 June 2023
  • Seven years on from the vote and three from the ultimate severance of ties with the EU, the UK is going through something of an employment poly-crisis.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The company took severance charges of €41 million in Q1 related to the layoffs.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The exact number of cut jobs and amount of severance to be offered is still in flux, according to the report—but the 3,700 number would cut the company’s staff in half.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Revenue rose 11% but was offset by legal charges and severance costs.
    — WSJ, 26 July 2023
  • Snap expects to spend up to $75 million on severance and related costs.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 5 Feb. 2024
  • For many, healthy severance payments provide ample cover to work up their own ideas.
    — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Disney took a $150-million hit from severance costs related to the layoffs.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • Employees who decide to quit will receive severance, the company said at the time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Exiting positions and deals is a multi-year process that often comes at a hefty cost, as do the severance package for high flying bankers who are shown the door.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The Peltz camp points to the Disney board’s decision to renew the contract of Chapek in March but terminate him eight months later, a move that came with an eight-figure severance bill.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But, now, there are also breach of contract claims related to severance packages and remote work.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Kim said she was told that managers would receive three weeks of severance while beauty artists, the name for Morphe’s retail employees, would get two weeks.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Severance payments: If you were laid off last year and received a lump sum payment for severance, that money will be taxable in 2022.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Michael Ricci, a spokesman for Hogan, has said the governor sent the message before learning more details about how the severance package was obtained.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In 2010, trustees asked Pollick to resign and gave him a generous severance as an inducement.
    — al, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime, though, the firm expects to incur as much as $1 billion in expenses tied to severance payments and Fraser’s restructuring of the bank this year.
    — Todd Gillespie, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024

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