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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#m1)

2) (euphemism) the firing itself, described politely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x1)
- Outplacement includes help writing CVs and practice interviews. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x2)
- After the factory closed, workers got three months of outplacement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x3)
- «Outplacement» sounds nice, but it means you lost your job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x4)
- She works for an outplacement firm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x5)
- The letter said I'd been «selected for outplacement». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outplacement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outplacement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.