Redundant is most commonly followed by from when someone loses a job because the position is no longer needed. In and with are used in technical or descriptive contexts. By and at usually introduce separate details, not complements of redundant.
Use redundant from for losing a job because a role is unnecessary. Use redundant in to describe unnecessary elements inside something. Redundant with is used for systems or equipment that include backup parts. Redundant by and redundant at are usually not standard complements after the adjective.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use redundant from when talking about employment and organisational cuts.
Use redundant in when describing extra or unnecessary information, steps, or components within a larger whole.
In technical English, redundant with describes a system that has duplicate or backup elements.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
For job loss, use redundant from or simply made redundant.
✕ He was redundant in the company. ✓ He was made redundant from the company.Redundant means unnecessary because something is duplicated or no longer needed.
✕ The chorus is redundant because it appears twice. ✓ The chorus is repetitive because it appears twice.By usually adds time or cause information, not the main complement after redundant.
✕ The worker was redundant by the factory. ✓ The worker was made redundant from the factory.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. Made redundant is very common in employment English, especially in British English.
It appears mostly in engineering, computing, and systems language about backup components.
Yes. You can say a role is redundant or information is redundant without adding a complement.
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