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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
redundant
re‧dun‧dant/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 • • • 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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