- (British English)
(of a person 人 without a job because there is no more work available for you in a company 被裁减的 to be made redundant from your job 成为冗员而被裁减 redundant employees 受裁汰的员工
Collocations UnemploymentUnemployment 失业 Losing your job 失业 - lose your job
失业 - (British English) become/be made redundant
被裁减 - be offered/take voluntary redundancy/early retirement
被要求／选择自愿裁退／提前退休 - face/be threatened with dismissal/(British English) the sack/(British English) compulsory redundancy
面临被解职／被裁／强制裁员；受到解职／被裁／强制裁员的威胁 - dismiss/fire/ (especially British English) sack an employee/a worker/a manager
解雇雇员／工人／经理 - lay off staff/workers/employees
解雇员工／工人／雇员 - (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English) retrench workers
缩减人员 - cut/reduce/downsize/slash the workforce
裁减员工 - (British English) make staff/workers/employees redundant
裁员
Being unemployed 失业；待业；下岗 - be unemployed/out of work/out of a job
失业 - seek/look for work/employment
找工作 - be on/collect/draw/get/receive (both British English) unemployment benefit/jobseeker’s allowance
领取失业补助金 - be/go/live/sign (British English, informal) on the dole
领取失业救济金 - claim/draw/get (British English, informal) the dole
领取失业救济金 - be on/qualify for (North American English) unemployment (compensation)
领取／有资格领取失业补偿金 - be/go/live/depend (North American English) on welfare
靠社会保障金过活 - collect/receive (North American English) welfare
领取社会保障金 - combat/tackle/cut/reduce unemployment
防止／解决／减少失业
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc1the decision to make 800 employees compulsorily redundant 强行裁减 800 名员工的决定 I've been expecting to be made redundant for a year now. 一年来我一直等着被裁减。 The programme organizes training for redundant workers. 该方案为多余的工人组织培训。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- make somebody
- …
- compulsorily
not needed or useful 多余的；不需要的 Extra ExamplesThere's a lot of redundant information that you could cut out here. 这里有许多可以删掉的不必要的信息。 The chapel was declared redundant in 1995. 1995 年宣布不再需要这个小礼拜堂。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
- …
- completely
- partially
- virtually
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘abundant’): from Latin redundant- ‘surging up’, from the verb redundare ‘surge’, from re(d)- ‘again’ + unda ‘a wave’.