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.