redundantre‧dun‧dant /rɪˈdʌndənt/ ●●○ adjective 
Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts.make a job/position etc redundant As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.► see thesaurus at unemployed2not necessary because something else means or does the same thing: the removal of redundant information
WORD ORIGINredundant
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin present participle of redundare; ➔ REDOUNDEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight.
- Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.
- Businesses are closing and making people redundant.
- He argued that he was not redundant because there was other work available within the terms of his contract of employment.
- In Arbroath the oil-related firm Halliburton Manufacturing is to make 64 workers redundant.
- Moving an otherwise redundant conveyancing secretary is not the answer, at least, not without paying proper attention to their training needs.
- Two years later he was made redundant again, but gained another job in much the same way.
THESAURUS
someone who is unemployed does not have a job: · Fifty percent of the men in this town are unemployed.
unemployed, especially for a long period of time, when you had a job before: · I’ve been out of work for two years.
British English if someone is redundant, they have been told that they no longer have a job: · He was made redundant earlier this year.· redundant miners
British English, be on welfare/on unemployment American English to be receiving money from the government because you do not have a job: · I didn’t want to go back on the dole.· Many people on welfare don’t have anyone to take care of the kids while they train for a job.
if someone is looking for work, they do not have a job and are trying to find one: · How long have you been looking for work?
people who are jobless do not have jobs – used especially in news reports: · The jobless totals have risen by 6% in the last year.· jobless youths
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone is forced to leave their job · After she lost her job, she got more and more depressed and started drinking heavily.· Many people won't complain about pay and conditions because they're terrified of losing their jobs.
also dismiss formal to make someone leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong: · He was just impossible to work with, and in the end they fired him.· Harris was caught stealing, and was dismissed immediately.· You're fired!fire/dismiss somebody for something: · She was fired for serious professional misconduct.fire from: · When Max was fired from his job the whole family had to pack up and leave town.· A New York art teacher who refused to take part in the daily flag ceremony was dismissed from her post.
British to make someone leave their job, for example, because they are not good enough at it, they are no longer needed, or they have done something wrong: · We can't really give him the sack just because he's unpopular.sack somebody for something: · He was sacked for being drunk in the office.get the sack (=be sacked): · He had the good luck to work in an old family firm when nobody ever got the sack.
to make workers, especially workers in a large factory or organization, leave their jobs, because there is not enough work for them to do, or not enough money to pay their wages: lay off somebody/lay somebody off: · 3000 car workers have been laid off at the factory in Cleveland.
British to make someone leave their job, and usually pay them some money to do so, because they are no longer needed: · At least 2,000 computer programmers have been made redundant in the past year.· We lost our home when my husband was made redundant five years ago.
British a situation in which someone has to leave their job, and is usually paid some money to do so, because they are no longer needed by their company: · These redundancies are necessary for the company to be able to survive.· The board are planning a restructuring which could mean hundreds of redundancies.voluntary redundancy (=when a company asks workers if they want to leave their jobs, and offers to pay them money to do so): · We hope to achieve staffing cuts through voluntary redundancy and a freeze on recruitment.
to make someone leave a job or organization temporarily, either as a punishment for doing something wrong, or while the organization tries to find out whether they have done something wrong or not: · Two senior officials have been suspended on full pay pending a second internal inquiry.suspend from: · The Police Department has suspended six officers from duty while they investigate claims of fraud and corruption.
to tell someone that they must leave their job, either immediately or in a week, a month etc: · The company are planning to close down, and we've all been given two weeks' notice.· In the course of restructuring, over half the workforce were given their notice.
if someone with an important official job is relieved of their duties or post , their job is taken away from them, especially for a short time because people think they have done something very bad and this is being checked: · The Chief Inspector has been relieved of his duties pending another investigation by fellow officers.· The authorities have decided to relieve the professor of his post at the university until further notice, after complaints were made by one of his female students.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts. As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1British English if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you: Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts. As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant. (=stop employing them because there is no work for them to do)· Crossways was nearing bankruptcy and had to make 720 employees redundant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.· Data compression can increase the effective speed at which a connection operates by getting rid of redundant information.· In communication terms he is introducing redundant information to make good the loss in the system.· The inclusion of second level information would not increase the proportion of useful information to redundant information.· By repeating the name here, now redundant information, Leon behaves rather as one might in producing a character profile.· The storage of this sort of data causes the difficulty that the compact format is counterbalanced by the redundant information.
· The research aims to study the means by which redundant workers find employment and the ease or difficulty of doing so.· The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers.· What, then, happened to the redundant workers?
Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts.make a job/position etc redundant As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.► see thesaurus at unemployed2not necessary because something else means or does the same thing: the removal of redundant information