1.
If you are made ~, your employer tells you to leave because your job is no longer necessary or because your employer cannot afford to keep paying you. (BRIT BUSINESS; in AM, use be dismissed )
My husband was made ~ late last year.
...a ~ miner.
ADJ
2.
Something that is ~ is no longer needed because its job is being done by something else or because its job is no longer necessary or useful.
Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now ~.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ