noun · formal
redundancy
/rɪˈdʌndənsi/re·DUN·dan·cy
Band 6-7speakingtask2
the situation where someone loses their job because their position is no longer needed; layoff
Examples
“The factory closed and many workers were made redundant.”
“Redundancy programmes often include severance pay.”
“She faced redundancy after the company automated the assembly line.”
Band 8 sentence
“The introduction of new technology resulted in redundancies despite management's assurances of no job losses.”
Collocations
- be made redundant
- redundancy package
- threat of redundancy
Word family
redundancy nounredundant adjectiveredundantly adverb
Common mistakes
He was redundant last year.→He was made redundant last year.
They gave him redundancy.→They made him redundant.
Say it for a higher band
5fired→6laid off→7+redundancy
Synonyms
layoff
dismissal
Easily confused
layoff
“The company announced a temporary layoff for several production staff.”
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