| 单词 | redundant |
| 释义 | Related topics: Employmentre·dun·dant /rɪˈdʌndənt/ ●●○ adjective 1 British EnglishBE if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you 被裁员的，被解雇的 Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts. 在继而发生的裁员中，70名工厂工人被解雇。make a job/position etc redundant As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant. 随着经济疲弱，越来越多的工作岗位将被裁撤。► see thesaurus at unemployed2 USE somethingnot necessary because something else means or does the same thing 多余的；累赘的 the removal of redundant information 多余信息的删除Examples from the Corpusredundant• Businesses are closing and making people redundant.• In Arbroath the oil-related firm Halliburton Manufacturing is to make 64 workers redundant.• Two years later he was made redundant again, but gained another job in much the same way.• He argued that he was not redundant because there was other work available within the terms of his contract of employment.• Moving an otherwise redundant conveyancing secretary is not the answer, at least, not without paying proper attention to their training needs.• A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight.• Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.made redundant• The remaining 50 percent were made redundant.• We had the same bills after he got made redundant.• John had been made redundant and their house was repossessed.• He was worried about being made redundant at work.• Tim Plunkett, who was made redundant by Dowty's and Jim Blenkinsop.• If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome.• Mr Stacey was notified in February 1984 that he would be made redundant the following May.• Is it helping those made redundant to find new jobs, and immigrants to fit in?From Longman Business Dictionaryredundantre‧dun‧dant /rɪˈdʌndənt/ adjective especially British EnglishHUMAN RESOURCES if you are made redundant, you lose your job because your employer no longer has a job for youThe bank expects to make 15,000 staff redundant over the next three years.Origin redundant (1500-1600) Latin present participle of redundare; → REDOUNDre·dun·dant adjectiveChineseSyllable Business your no are if longer you Corpus redundant, employer |
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