GOLDEN HANDSHAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does golden handshake mean? 

• GOLDEN HANDSHAKE (noun)
  The noun GOLDEN HANDSHAKE has 1 sense:

1. a lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire)

  Familiarity information: GOLDEN HANDSHAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDEN HANDSHAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("golden handshake" is a kind of...):

severance agreement (an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave)