Definition of redundant adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

redundant

adjective

/rɪˈdʌndənt/

(British English) (of a person) without a job because there is no more work available for you in a company
- to be made redundant from your job
- redundant employees
Collocations Unemployment
UnemploymentLosing your job
- lose your job
- (British English) become/be made redundant
- be offered/take voluntary redundancy/early retirement
- face/be threatened with dismissal/(British English) the sack/(British English) compulsory redundancy
- dismiss/fire/ (especially British English) sack an employee/a worker/a manager
- lay off staff/workers/employees
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English) retrench workers
- cut/reduce/downsize/slash the workforce
- (British English) make staff/workers/employees redundant
Being unemployed
- be unemployed/out of work/out of a job
- seek/look for work/employment
- be on/collect/draw/get/receive (both British English) unemployment benefit/jobseeker’s allowance
- be/go/live/sign (British English, informal) on the dole
- claim/draw/get (British English, informal) the dole
- be on/qualify for (North American English) unemployment (compensation)
- be/go/live/depend (North American English) on welfare
- collect/receive (North American English) welfare
- combat/tackle/cut/reduce unemployment
Extra Examples
- the decision to make 800 employees compulsorily redundant
- I've been expecting to be made redundant for a year now.
- The programme organizes training for redundant workers.
Topics Social issuesc1, Working lifec1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- become
- make somebody
- …
adverb
- compulsorily
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not needed or useful
- The picture has too much redundant detail.
Extra Examples
- There's a lot of redundant information that you could cut out here.
- The chapel was declared redundant in 1995.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- feel
- seem
- …
adverb
- completely
- partially
- virtually
- …
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘abundant’): from Latin redundant- ‘surging up’, from the verb redundare ‘surge’, from re(d)- ‘again’ + unda ‘a wave’.

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