redundancy

/rɪˈdʌndənsi/ noun

Definition

NO JOB [C, U] UK › when your employer makes you stop working because there is not enough work: There have been a lot of redundancies in the mining industry.

EXTRA [U] › when something is not needed or used because there are other similar or more modern things

(Definition of redundancy noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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