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writes: What Does becoming redundant mean.I guess I am a uninformed American (I was going to say Stupid...but I'm not) I think I know what it means but not sure. I have asked the question in one of my answers to someone else, but haven't heard back. I'm guessing it means what we here in American would call getting layed-off, losing your job, unemployed...is that correct? See, I'm not stupid!I would love a confirmation that my assumption is correct or not. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! Reply to this Question
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reader, sappygirl  +, writes (15 February 2009):
 dictionary.com is very useful
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reader, anonymous, writes (15 February 2009): This is verified as being by the original poster of the questionThank you! Well, I'm not a stupid American, but I guess I'm a lazy American...never thought to look it up!
Yes here in the U.S., being layed off is different than being fired. Usually being fired means you screwed-up!
Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer my question!
Britt
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reader, wonderingcat  +, writes (15 February 2009):
 Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Edition).redundant -- [adjective]1) no longer needed or useful; superfluous. - (of words) able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function. - Engineering (of a component) not strictly necessary but included in case another component fails.2) chiefly British: unemployed.– DERIVATIVES redundancy n. (pl. redundancies). redundantly adv.
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reader, Tomas +, writes (15 February 2009):
You are correct, it means being laid off. But there is a more particular meaning. Being made redundant is considered different than being fired, in that being fired implies you weren't doing a good job, while being made redundant just means that your job/position was no longer needed. (You are considered redundant in the sense that there are two employees for only one person's worth of work. The second person is redundant.)In the United States we don't make such a clean distinction, except perhaps saying that there were layoffs.
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