REDUNDANT


Meaning of REDUNDANT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

make employees redundant (= stop employing them because there is no work for them to do )

Crossways was nearing bankruptcy and had to make 720 employees redundant.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

information

This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.

Data compression can increase the effective speed at which a connection operates by getting rid of redundant information .

In communication terms he is introducing redundant information to make good the loss in the system.

The inclusion of second level information would not increase the proportion of useful information to redundant information.

By repeating the name here, now redundant information , Leon behaves rather as one might in producing a character profile.

The storage of this sort of data causes the difficulty that the compact format is counterbalanced by the redundant information .

worker

The research aims to study the means by which redundant workers find employment and the ease or difficulty of doing so.

The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers .

What, then, happened to the redundant workers ?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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.

Businesses are closing and making people redundant .

He argued that he was not redundant because there was other work available within the terms of his contract of employment.

In Arbroath the oil-related firm Halliburton Manufacturing is to make 64 workers redundant .

Moving an otherwise redundant conveyancing secretary is not the answer, at least, not without paying proper attention to their training needs.

Two years later he was made redundant again, but gained another job in much the same way.

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