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Severance

Severance Meaning & Definition
Severance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Severance?

[n] the act of severing
[n] a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Severance: breach | break | falling out | rift | rupture | severing

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See Also | breakup | cut | cutting | detachment | separation

Severance In Webster's Dictionary

\Sev"er*ance\, n. 1. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. --Milman. 2. (Law) 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. --Bouvier.

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