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redundancy

[ ri-duhn-duhn-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural re·dun·dan·cies.

the state of being redundant.
superfluous repetition or overlapping, especially of words.
a redundant thing, part, or amount; superfluity.
the provision of additional or duplicate systems, equipment, etc., that function in case an operating part or system fails, as in a spacecraft.
Linguistics.
1. the inclusion of more information than is necessary for communication, as in those cars, where both words are marked for plurality.
2. the additional, predictable information so included.
3. the degree of predictability thereby created.
Chiefly British.
1. the condition or fact of being unemployed; unemployment.
2. a layoff.

redundancy

/ rɪˈdʌndənsɪ /

1. the state or condition of being redundant or superfluous, esp superfluous in one's job
2. ( as modifier )
  a redundancy payment
excessive proliferation or profusion, esp of superfluity
duplication of components in electronic or mechanical equipment so that operations can continue following failure of a part
repetition of information or inclusion of additional information to reduce errors in telecommunication transmissions and computer processing

redundancy

Unnecessary repetition in speech or writing. The expression freedom and liberty is redundant.

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin redundantia “an overflowing, excess,” derivative of redundāns “overflowing, abounding”; redundant

Redundancy in general remains an issue for Wolcott: “white-boned,” “pale-moon,” “bulk-sized,” “streaming cataract,” “forlorn rue.”

The stakes are so great that you would think the people who own and run them would invest heavily in redundancy.

This is almost a third of the entire redundancy costs of the hundred or more staff sacked when News of the World closed.

Liz Mackean has since taken voluntary redundancy of the BBC, and will leave next March.

Markets usually have a lot of redundancy built into them--multiple payers, multiple suppliers.

The French continually offers redundancy of subject or complement, but not with the relative.

In the fifth edition, Richardson seems chiefly concerned with redundancy, but he also diminishes some of the praise.

Exuberantly ornamented, it never oversteps the thin line which separates richness from redundancy.

The redundancy of unmarried young women should set people thinking on the causes for so much enforced celibacy.

This redundancy and repetition do not constitute the direct, forward-moving style we should like to impress on the children.

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