be redundant

Frequency: 8.025.1 per million words

Used to state the condition of being unemployed due to job elimination. Marked as a British English usage.

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Examples (20)

  • Hundreds of workers are now redundant following the factory's closure.
  • Many staff members are now redundant after the factory closed.
  • She has been redundant since the company merger last autumn.
  • He is redundant after twenty years of service to the company.
  • If the funding is cut, several staff members will be redundant.
  • The extra information is redundant and should be removed from the report.
  • He found it difficult being redundant after thirty years of service.
  • In the digital age, traditional paper maps are largely redundant.
  • The local newspaper reported that nearly 500 employees were redundant.
  • If you are redundant, you might be entitled to statutory severance pay.
  • It is a stressful time for any worker who is redundant in this economy.
  • Some of the safety features are completely redundant in this specific model.
  • Many of those who are redundant are receiving retraining grants.
  • She feared that she would be redundant by the end of the fiscal year.
  • No one wants to be redundant during the current financial crisis.
  • This secondary backup system is now redundant thanks to the new cloud storage.
  • The technicians were redundant because their skills were no longer needed.
  • Thousands of workers were redundant following the global economic crisis.
  • After the restructuring, her previous role was redundant.
  • The word 'annual' in the phrase 'annual yearly report' is redundant.