adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make employees redundant (= stop employing them because there is no work for them to do )
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Crossways was nearing bankruptcy and had to make 720 employees redundant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
information
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This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.
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Data compression can increase the effective speed at which a connection operates by getting rid of redundant information .
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In communication terms he is introducing redundant information to make good the loss in the system.
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The inclusion of second level information would not increase the proportion of useful information to redundant information.
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By repeating the name here, now redundant information , Leon behaves rather as one might in producing a character profile.
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The storage of this sort of data causes the difficulty that the compact format is counterbalanced by the redundant information .
worker
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The research aims to study the means by which redundant workers find employment and the ease or difficulty of doing so.
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The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers .
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What, then, happened to the redundant workers ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight.
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Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.
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Businesses are closing and making people redundant .
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He argued that he was not redundant because there was other work available within the terms of his contract of employment.
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In Arbroath the oil-related firm Halliburton Manufacturing is to make 64 workers redundant .
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Moving an otherwise redundant conveyancing secretary is not the answer, at least, not without paying proper attention to their training needs.
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Two years later he was made redundant again, but gained another job in much the same way.