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redundant


redundant/rɪˈdʌndənt/ adjective
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : present participle of redundare; ⇨ redound]
1. British English if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you:
  ▪ 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.

2. not necessary because something else means or does the same thing:
  ▪ the removal of redundant information
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THESAURUS
unemployed someone who is unemployed does not have a job :
  ▪ Fifty per cent of the men in this town are unemployed.
out of work unemployed, especially for a long period of time, when you had a job before :
  ▪ I’ve been out of work for two years.
redundant 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
be on the dole 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.
be looking for work 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?
jobless 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

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make employees 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 CORPUS
NOUN
information
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.
worker
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?
EXAMPLES FROM 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.

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