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WordBand 6.5–7.5Toofey picks
redundancy
/rɪˈdʌndənsi/
noun
Losing your job because it is no longer needed.
- “The factory closure led to hundreds of redundancies.”Toofey
- “Redundancy is a part of language.”Tatoeba
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))