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Most often, this word means the ending of a relationship, job, or connection, especially in a formal or official way. Its most common everyday use is in 'severance pay' (or just 'severance'), the money a company gives an employee when it lets them go, to help them while they find new work.
(工作)資遣費；(關係)終止
組成sever + ance. 'Sever' means 'to cut off completely,' and '-ance' turns it into a word for the state or act of doing that.
同家族的字
- severthe base word this comes from, meaning 'to cut off completely'
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Severancename
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A surname.
severancenoun/ˈsɛv.ɹəns/
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The act of severing or the state of being severed.
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A separation.
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A severance payment.
- Meta will notify employees who are being laid off on May 20, and will provide severance packages for those in the United States that include “16 weeks of base pay plus two weeks for every year of employment,” according to the memo to workers.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。