outplacement

«outplacement» in Mova's school dictionary: help paid by a company to workers it has fired, to find… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (outplacement, uncountable); business jargon

meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, jargon) help paid by a company to workers it has fired, to find new jobs. tree →

2) (euphemism) the firing itself, described politely. tree →

sense in the lessons

Companies use it when cutting jobs to sound caring; it focuses on the help, not on the sacking. Jargon register, all English-speaking countries.

examples

• The company offered outplacement services to the laid-off staff. tree →
• Outplacement includes help writing CVs and practice interviews. tree →
• After the factory closed, workers got three months of outplacement. tree →
• «Outplacement» sounds nice, but it means you lost your job. tree →
• She works for an outplacement firm. tree →
• The letter said I'd been «selected for outplacement». tree →

note

It is not «placing you outside»; it is job-hunting help after being fired. Plain words: help after being fired, being fired.

In the corpora

• "Outplacement" means help given to fired workers to find new jobs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outplacement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.