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n. The act or process of severing.

n. The condition of being severed.

n. Separation; partition.

n. Severance pay.

n. The act of severing or the state of being severed.

n. A separation.

n. A severance payment.

n. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.

n. 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.

n. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; separation; the act of dividing or disuniting; partition.

n. the act of severing

n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

"“You know where the term severance pay comes from, Scot?” said Longo as he hung the clipboard on a peg inside the cabinet and locked it again."

cut    cutting   

severance of an action    severance of a joint tenancy   

partition    separation    division    distinction    severance payment    severance pay   

irreverence    reverence   

obliteration    rending    estrangement    abandonment    rupture    sever    subjection    alienation    subjugation    disconnection