Usually means: Financial incentives discouraging employee departure.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. golden handcuffs: Merriam-Webster
  2. golden handcuffs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. golden handcuffs: The Word Spy
  4. golden handcuffs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. golden handcuffs: Collins English Dictionary
  6. golden handcuffs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. golden handcuffs: Wiktionary
  8. golden handcuffs: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. golden handcuffs: Dictionary.com
  10. Golden handcuffs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. golden handcuffs: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. golden handcuffs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Golden handcuffs: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Golden Handcuffs: Investopedia
  5. golden handcuffs: Financial dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. golden handcuffs: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. golden handcuffs: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (golden handcuffs)

noun:  (idiomatic) Any arrangement or agreement designed to provide extremely favorable benefits or pay, so as to discourage a participant from choosing to leave it, especially to retain a choice employee in a role that is unpleasant to them.

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