if you are made redundant, you lose your job because your employer no longer has a job for you:
• The bank expects to make 15,000 staff redundant over the next three years.
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redundant UK US /rɪˈdʌndənt/ adjective
► HR having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you: »
redundant employees/staff/workers
► not needed or more than is needed: »
Old copies of a textbook soon become redundant when a new edition comes out.
redundant buildings/equipment/properties »The levels of revenue generated by the auction sale of redundant properties was very encouraging.
Financial and business terms. 2012.