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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#m1)

2) (money) Redundancy pay is money given to a worker who is made redundant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#m2)

3) (formal) Redundancy is having more of something than is needed, like spare parts kept "just in case" or repeated words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x1)
- Mum got redundancy pay to help until she finds work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x2)
- Hundreds of workers faced redundancy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x3)
- It wasn't his fault — it was redundancy, not the sack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x4)
- Planes have redundancy: if one system fails, another takes over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x5)
- "Return back" has redundancy, because return already means go back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «redundancy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redundancy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.