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.