redundancynoun
uk/rɪˈdʌn.dən.si/us/rɪˈdʌn.dən.si/redundancy noun (NOT EMPLOYED)
C1 [ C or U ] UK a situation in which someone loses their job because their employer does not need them:
The economic downturn has meant 10,000 redundancies in the Northeast.
She took voluntary redundancy.
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- I live in dread of redundancy.
- There's a lot of redundancy in the area.
- He was so fed up at work that redundancy was starting to look quiet appealing.
- Some people would opt for redundancy rather than redeployment.
- They got rid of 80 staff in the latest round of redundancies.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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redundancy noun (NOT NEEDED)
[ U ] a situation in which something is unnecessary because it is more than is needed
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- play gooseberry idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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