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Redundancy Voluntary Rɪˈdʌndənsi Leave Compulsory Company Noun Workers

Redundancy refers to employees being made jobless because their roles are no longer needed or affordable. It can also mean something or someone being surplus to requirements or unnecessary.

redundancy means being made redundant, which is when employees have to leave their jobs because they are no longer needed or the organization can no longer afford to pay them. The term can also refer to the state of not being necessary or useful.

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]裁减冗员;裁员 When there are redundancies, an organization tells some of its employees to leave because their jobs are no longer necessary or because the organization can no longer afford to pay them.
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  • The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.

    该部称希望避免强制性裁员。

in AM, use 美国英语用 dismissals layoffs
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]裁员;被解雇 Redundancy means being made redundant.
  [BUSINESS 商]
  • Thousands of bank employees are facing redundancy as their employers cut costs...

    雇主削减成本的时候,数千名银行雇员面临被解雇的命运。

  • The company has had to make redundancy payments of £472 million.

    该公司不得不为裁员支付4.72亿英镑的补偿款。


Oxford re·dun·dancy / rɪˈdʌndənsi ; NAmE rɪˈdʌndənsi / noun ( plural re·dun·dancies ) 1 [uncountable ,  countable ,  usually plural ] ( BrE) the situation when sb has to leave their job because there is no more work available for them (因劳动力过剩而造成的)裁员,解雇 ◆ Thousands of factory workers are facing redundancy. 数千名工厂工人面临裁汰。 ◆ to accept/take voluntary redundancy (= to offer to leave your job) 接受自愿裁汰 ◆ the threat of compulsory redundancies 强制裁员的威胁 ◆ redundancy payments 裁员补偿 ☞ collocationsat
unemployment
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lay-off
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2 [uncountable ] ( formal or technical 术语 ) the state of not being necessary or useful 多余;累赘 ◆ Natural language is characterized by redundancy (= words are used that are not really necessary for sb to understand the meaning). 自然语言的特点是繁复。 redundancy redundancies
re·dun·dancy / rɪˈdʌndənsi ; NAmE rɪˈdʌndənsi /
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redundancyre‧dun‧dan‧cy /rɪˈdʌndənsi/ noun (plural redundancies)
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1[countable, uncountable] British English a situation in which someone has to leave their job, because they are no longer needed SYN  layoff:  The closure of the export department resulted in over 100 redundancies. Two thousand workers now face redundancy. An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years.voluntary/compulsory redundancy We were offered a £3,000 cash bonus to take voluntary redundancy.2[uncountable] when something is not used because something similar or the same already existsCOLLOCATIONSverbsmake redundancies· The company is to make 1,400 redundancies.face redundancy· Up to 300 leather factory workers are facing redundancy.take/accept redundancy· Twenty staff members took voluntary redundancy.volunteer for redundancy (=offer to take redundancy)· Nearly 40% of the workforce volunteered for redundancy.adjectivescompulsory redundancies (=when workers are forced to be redundant)· He promised there would be no compulsory redundancies.voluntary redundancies (=done willingly, without being forced)· Wherever possible the cuts will be achieved by voluntary redundancies.mass/large-scale redundancies· The company is preparing large-scale redundancies at its British factories.redundancy + NOUNredundancy money/pay· He spent his redundancy money on a plot of land.a redundancy payment· He was not entitled to a redundancy payment.redundancy terms (=the conditions of a redundancy agreement, for example how much money someone will receive)· Some staff had chosen to go because the voluntary redundancy terms were attractive.a redundancy package (=a set of things offered to someone who is being made redundant)· The trade union negotiated a generous redundancy package for its members.a redundancy notice (=a printed statement telling a worker that they are being made redundant)· 1,100 of the bank's 1,260 staff in the UK were given redundancy notices.phrasesa round of redundancies (=one set of redundancies in a series)· The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.a wave of redundancies (=a sudden increase in the number of redundancies)· The latest wave of redundancies resulted in 4,000 job cuts.
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n.[计][数] 冗余(等于redundance);裁员;人浮于事

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