make sb redundant
Frequency: 8.530.2 per million words
Refers to the action by a company of terminating an employee's job. Marked as a British English usage.
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Examples (10)
- The company had to make fifty employees redundant due to financial difficulties.
- They decided to make the entire department redundant after the merger.
- Many workers were made redundant when the factory closed down.
- The manager informed him that they would have to make him redundant next month.
- She fears the new technology will make many of her colleagues redundant.
- It's always a difficult decision to make people redundant, but sometimes it's necessary.
- The government's policy aimed to retrain those who were made redundant.
- Despite their efforts, they still had to make a significant number of staff redundant.
- The decision to make 800 employees compulsorily redundant caused public outcry.
- No one wants to be made redundant, especially in the current economic climate.