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redundancy

 
 
/rɪˈdʌndənsi/ noun

Translation

NO JOB [C, U] UK when your employer makes you stop working because there is not enough work
işten çıkarılma, ihtiyaç fazlası olma
There have been a lot of redundancies in the mining industry.1438
EXTRA [U] when something is not needed or used because there are other similar or more modern things
fazlalık, gereksizlik
1821
(Definition of redundancy noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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