severance
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The act of turning a joint tenancy into a tenancy in common, ending the right of survivorship.
A notice of severance meant his half would now pass under his will, not to his co-owner.
Business noun
The pay and benefits given to an employee when their contract is terminated.
They offered him six months' severance to leave quietly.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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