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severance

noun
  1. the act of severing
    “Butchers regularly engage in severance.”
    severing
  2. a personal or social separation
    “The severance between the two sides of the family had lasted for years.”
    breach
  3. an informal shortening of "severance package"
    “I had been working there for three years, so they had to give me full severance.”