severance pay

severance pay

English

Noun

severance pay (uncountable)

1. Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment is ended, often in exchange of waiver.
   • 2008, Tom Clark, The Guardian, G2, 15 Jan 2008, p. 3:

     The only case for severance pay on top is that fortunes in public life are so uncertain that some MPs might be discouraged from seeking office if there weren’t any cushion.

Synonyms

• severance payment, severance

Translations

money paid to employee as compensation

Chinese: Mandarin: 遣散費 (zh), 遣散费 (zh) (qiǎnsànfèi) Danish: fratrædelsesgodtgørelse c Dutch: ontslagvergoeding (nl) f Finnish: eroraha, irtisanomisraha, irtisanomiskorvaus French: indemnité de licenciement (fr) f Georgian: დახმარება სამსახურიდან დათხოვნისას (daxmareba samsaxuridan datxovnisas), კომპენსაცია სამსახურიდან დათხოვნისას (ḳomṗensacia samsaxuridan datxovnisas), დათხოვნის პაკეტი (datxovnis ṗaḳeṭi) Hungarian: végkielégítés Indonesian: uang pesangon (id)

Italian: buonuscita (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: компенсация (ru) (kompensacija) при (ru) (pri) увольнении (ru) (uvolʹnenii) Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can