redundancy

«redundancy» in Mova's school dictionary: losing your job because the employer no longer needs that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (redundancy, a redundancy, redundancies)

meaning for a pupil

1) (work, UK, Ireland, Australia) Redundancy is losing your job because the employer no longer needs that job — for example when a factory closes — not because of anything you did wrong. tree →

2) (money) Redundancy pay is money given to a worker who is made redundant. tree →

3) (formal) Redundancy is having more of something than is needed, like spare parts kept "just in case" or repeated words. tree →

sense in the lessons

In adult life a parent may be "made redundant"; families then cut spending and the parent writes a new CV. Children may hear euphemisms like "let go" or "laid off" (US). In engineering, redundancy is good: a spare engine or backup computer keeps things safe. In writing lessons, redundancy means saying the same thing twice ("a free gift"). Phrases: be made redundant, redundancy pay, voluntary redundancy, face redundancy.

examples

• Dad was made redundant when the factory closed. tree →
• Mum got redundancy pay to help until she finds work. tree →
• Hundreds of workers faced redundancy. tree →
• It wasn't his fault — it was redundancy, not the sack. tree →
• Planes have redundancy: if one system fails, another takes over. tree →
• "Return back" has redundancy, because return already means go back. tree →

note

Plural redundancies (y → ies). Adjective redundant. US/Canada say "laid off" or "layoffs". Redundancy is different from being sacked or fired (losing a job for doing something wrong).

In the corpora

• Unemployment is not having a paid job when you want one; redundancy is losing your job because it is no longer needed.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «redundancy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.