severance pay
noun
money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
Origin of severance pay
First recorded in 1940–45
Words nearby severance pay
British Dictionary definitions for severance pay
severance pay
noun
compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of his own, the job to which he was appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to him