Severance

It's just not right to fire Tom without giving him severance pay.

You'll be given two weeks severance pay.

How much severance pay did you get?

We offered Tom a month's severance pay.

The firm's decision to lay off a number of workers was made more palatable by the payment of severance benefits to the affected workers and reassurances that they would be retrained for other jobs.

How much severance pay will we have to pay Tom?

Tom received a generous severance package.

Tom got a very generous severance package.

Your severance money is already gone.

He, too, had said, in vibrating tones, that he loved her. He had begged her to give him a chance; implored that she would let him try to be worthy. As if, poor fellow, he ever could come up to her standard! What girl of her breeding would think of him twice when there were blue-blooded, perfectly-groomed Greek gods like Tony Severance on earth?