severance

severance
/sev"euhr euhns, sev"reuhns/, n.
1. the act of severing or the state of being severed.
2. a breaking off, as of a friendship.
3. Law. a division into parts, as of liabilities or provisions; removal of a part from the whole.
[1375-1425; late ME severaunce < AF; see SEVER, -ANCE]

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