services no longer required

services no longer required
   dismissed from employment
   The blow is perhaps softened by the implication that the function no longer exists:
    I was given a discharge, ostensibly on the grounds that my services 'were no longer required', this being a curious euphemism. (R. V. Jones, 1978 — Jones was the outstanding British scientist of the Second World War)

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