redundant
[adjective]
Synonyms: superfluous, extra, inessential, supernumerary, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted

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Antonyms: concise
Related Words: extra, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, iterating, reiterating, repetitious

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English Thesaurus: unemployed, out of work, redundant, be on the dole, be looking for work, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧dun‧dant /rɪˈdʌndənt/ adjective
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: present participle of redundare; ⇒ redound]

1. British English if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you:
Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts.
make a job/position etc redundant
As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.

2. not necessary because something else means or does the same thing:
the removal of redundant information

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

redundant
adj.
I. no longer needed for a job
VERBS be | become | make sb the decision to make 800 employees compulsorily redundant
ADV. compulsorily

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

redundant
II. not necessary or wanted
VERBS be, feel, seem | become | declare sth, make sth, render sth The chapel was declared redundant in 1995.
ADV. completely | virtually | largely

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

unemployed someone who is unemployed does not have a job:
Fifty per cent of the men in this town are unemployed.
out of work unemployed, especially for a long period of time, when you had a job before:
I’ve been out of work for two years.
redundant British English if someone is redundant, they have been told that they no longer have a job:
He was made redundant earlier this year.
redundant miners
be on the dole British English, be on welfare/on unemployment American English to be receiving money from the government because you do not have a job:
I didn’t want to go back on the dole.
Many people on welfare don’t have anyone to take care of the kids while they train for a job.
be looking for work if someone is looking for work, they do not have a job and are trying to find one:
How long have you been looking for work?
jobless people who are jobless do not have jobs – used especially in news reports:
The jobless totals have risen by 6% in the last year.
jobless youths

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