laid-off vs redundant

laid-off

adj
  • Made unemployed or redundant. 

  • Bet with another bookmaker to reduce risk. 

redundant

adj
  • Dismissed from employment because no longer needed. 

  • Repetitive or needlessly wordy. 

  • Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed. 

  • Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails. 

How often have the words laid-off and redundant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )