redundant

redundant
[[t]rɪdʌ̱ndənt[/t]]
1) ADJ: usu v-link ADJ If you are made redundant, your employer tells you to leave because your job is no longer necessary or because your employer cannot afford to keep paying you. [BRIT]

My husband was made redundant late last year.

...a redundant miner.

(in AM, use be dismissed)
2) ADJ: usu v-link ADJ Something that is redundant is no longer needed because its job is being done by something else or because its job is no longer necessary or useful.

Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant.

...the conversion of redundant buildings to residential use.

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  • redundant — I adjective excessive, inordinate, needless, otiose, overmuch, periphrastic, pleonastic, repetitive, repititious, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneus, surplus, tautologic, tautological, uncalled for, undue, unnecessary,… …   Law dictionary

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