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Refrain from redundancy process (3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lay off

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This might be a double definition.

'refrain' is the first definition.
(thesaurus)

'redundancy process' is the second definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for lay off that I've seen before include "Give over!" , "Redundancy" , "Dismiss temporarily" , "Let staff go because of a downturn" , "Hedge (bet); suspend (worker)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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