🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典 🎯
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
BNC: 3877 COCA: 16763

redundancy

Word family 
Related topics: Employment
re·dun·dan·cy /rɪˈdʌndənsi/ noun (plural redundancies)  
1  [countableC, uncountableU] British EnglishBrEBE a situation in which someone has to leave their job, because they are no longer needed 裁员，解雇 SYN layoff
 The closure of the export department resulted in over 100 redundancies.
出口部关闭导致一百多人被解雇。
 Two thousand workers now face redundancy.
2,000 名工人现在面临失业。
 An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years.
在公司工作满两年的雇员才有资格拿遣散费。
voluntary/compulsory redundancy
 We were offered a £3,000 cash bonus to take voluntary redundancy.
给我们发了3,000英镑的现金补贴，叫我们自动离职。
2. [uncountableU]USE something when something is not used because something similar or the same already exists 多余；重复；累赘
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
make 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.
adjectives
compulsory 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 + NOUN
redundancy 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.
phrases
a 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.
Examples from the Corpus
redundancy• He says it won't become clear until there's a new owner but there may be redundancies.• The board are planning a restructuring which could mean hundreds of redundancies.• Make sure you have arranged mortgage Protection Cover and, if possible, insure yourself against sickness, redundancy or accident.• The staff are being offered the choice of moving or taking redundancy.• All employers used to receive a rebate of 35 percent of their redundancy bill from the Redundancy Fund.• These redundancies are necessary for the company to be able to survive.• This redundancy extends to the number zero itself, which can be written 000 or 00 just as well as 0.• We hope to achieve staffing cuts through voluntary redundancy and a freeze on recruitment.• Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.
redundancy payment• Equally, the right to a redundancy payment is subject to the rules about offers of alternative employment mentioned above.• The 20 members of staff were offered alternative employment but accepted redundancy payments instead.• The relatively high levels of unemployment and redundancy payments in the north are important factors to consider.• Everyone will, as per standing Union agreements, receive outplacement counselling, redundancy payments.• As a result of this change, no statistics are now available on the size of redundancy payments made directly by employers.• Such dismissals may lead to claims for unfair dismissal and/or redundancy payments.• In effect, therefore, the redundancy payment is based on final earnings.• The redundancy payments legislation allows employees a four-week trial period in which to make up their minds.
From Longman Business Dictionary
redundancyre·dun·dan·cy /rɪˈdʌndənsi/ noun (plural redundancies) [countableC, uncountableU] especially British EnglishBrEHUMAN RESOURCES
when someone loses their job in a company because the job is no longer needed
Over 2000 car workers now face redundancy.
Several members of staff have taken voluntary redundancy (=they have agreed to be made redundant, usually in return for a cash payment).
Because of low export sales, the company was forced to make 700 redundancies.
a generous redundancy package (=all the payments and other benefits that someone receives from their company when they are made redundant)
When people lose their job or are made redundant, they are forced to leave their job because their company can no longer afford to employ them
At least 2,000 computer programmers have been made redundant in the past year.
If someone is fired or dismissed formal, they have to leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong
She was fired for serious professional misconduct.
If someone is sacked British EnglishBrE or given the sack British EnglishBrE, they must leave their job, for example because they did not do the job well enough, they were no longer needed, or they did something wrong
He was sacked for drinking during office hours.
→ collective redundancy
re·dun·dan·cy noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
LDOCE Online
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
BNC: 3877 COCA: 16763
redundancy

noun

 (BrE) ADJECTIVE | ... OF REDUNDANCIES | VERB + REDUNDANCY | REDUNDANCY + NOUN | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤large-scale, major, mass, massive大規模裁員；大量裁員◇The closure of the mine led to large-scale redundancies.礦山的關閉造成大批工人失業。➤possible, threatened可能裁員▸➤compulsory, voluntary強制性裁員；自願被裁減➤staff人員過剩➤further進一步裁員... OF REDUNDANCIES➤round, wave一輪裁員◇a fresh wave of redundancies新一輪的裁員VERB + REDUNDANCY➤make進行裁員◇The bank will be making 3 500 redundancies over the next five years.在未來 5 年內該銀行將裁員 3,500 人。➤lead to, result in導致裁員▸➤avoid避免裁員▸➤announce宣佈裁員➤rule out排除裁員的可能性▸➤be threatened by, be threatened with, face受到裁員的威脅；面臨裁員◇Sixty workers at the factory face redundancy.該廠有 60 名工人面臨解雇。➤be offered被提為裁減人員▸➤accept, take, volunteer for接受辭退；自願離職◇34 members of staff have taken voluntary redundancy.34 名員工已經接受自願離職。REDUNDANCY + NOUN➤programme裁員計劃➤notice裁員通知◇Redundancy notices have been sent to 200 workers.200 名工人接到了裁員通知。➤package, terms遣散條件▸➤money, pay, payment遣散費；裁員費▸➤costs支付給冗員的費用◇Most of the companies' losses stemmed from redundancy costs.公司虧本主要是由於支付冗員費用造成的。PHRASES➤the threat of redundancy裁員的威脅
BNC: 3877 COCA: 16763
redundancy noun
⇨ unemployment
BNC: 3877 COCA: 16763

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 朗文詞典 📚 – longman.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime