redundancy

1. (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.Examples: "1981, New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates, Volume 442, page 4212, Has he received any representation from Air New Zealand management about redundancy proposals for Air New Zealand staff; and, if so, do these proposals include redundancy agreements?"; "1983, UK House of Commons, Papers by Command, Volume 40, page lvi, The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels […] ."; "In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account."Synonyms: retirement, sackingAustraliaNew-ZealandUKcountableuncountable

2. (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.countableuncountable