DIVORCEMENT Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

divorcement

noun

Definition of divorcement

as in severance

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Noun

The staff would have to begin to go even sooner than the shareholders; Fried Frank, in its presentation, estimated between $20 and $24 million in severance and $75 million in union termination.

— Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
For the length of the severance period, the departing executives will be entitled to healthcare at employee rates.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of severance

Noun

Apple’s gyrations are the latest demonstration of the stock’s increasing detachment from the broader market.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Yoon’s style recalls the stricken narrative detachment of the young soldiers in Remarqué’s and Hemingway’s World War I and Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of detachment

Noun

Zhou, a West Palm Beach Goldman Sachs analyst, would not leave his former girlfriend alone after their breakup.

— Matthew T. Christ, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
The new study instead places particular emphasis on a continent-scale rift-flank escarpment formed during Rodinia’s breakup.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of breakup

Noun

The result is a self-reflective collection of empowering pop anthems and wistful ballads that detail not only the dissolution of a relationship but a return to oneself.

— Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
The city’s current lease is dependent on the dissolution of Transformco’s current ground lease of the site.

— Frankie Rowley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of dissolution

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