separation allowance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sum of money paid regularly to support the dependents of a member of the military while he or she is serving away from home.
    — Life in the army, perhaps for the first time in the history of wars, raised in many respects the conventional standard of requirements,—the soldier was better clothed, better shod, and often better fed than the labourer, and his wife, adding in war time a separation allowance to new opportunities to earn, had also enlarged her ideas.
  2. Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment has ended.
    — The Mayor and Council will be entitled to a separation allowance upon completion of their term in office.

词形变化

separation allowances plural
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