redundancy

redundancy

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  • redundancy — re‧dun‧dan‧cy [rɪˈdʌndənsi] noun redundancies PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] especially BrE HUMAN RESOURCES when someone loses their job in a company because the job is no longer needed: • Over 2000 car workers now face redundancy. • Sev …   Financial and business terms

  • Redundancy — may refer to: Redundancy (engineering) Redundancy (information theory) Redundancy (language) Redundancy (total quality management) Redundancy (user interfaces) Data redundancy Gene redundancy Logic redundancy Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome… …   Wikipedia

  • redundancy — I noun duplication, excess, excessiveness, immoderation, inordinacy, inordinate amount, needlessness, nimiety, overplus, oversupply, pleonasm, recurrence, redundance, redundantia, reiteration, repetition, restatement, retelling, superabundance,… …   Law dictionary

  • redundancy — • ‘She is lively and vital enough to be a member of a terrorist gang.’ ‘Lively and vital,’ said Harvey, ‘lively and vital one of these words is redundant.’ Muriel Spark, 1984. English idiom is characterized by redundancy, or apparent redundancy,… …   Modern English usage

  • Redundancy — См. Резервирование Термины атомной энергетики. Концерн Росэнергоатом, 2010 …   Термины атомной энергетики

  • redundancy — *verbiage, tautology, pleonasm, circumlocution, periphrasis Analogous words: wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, diffuseness (see corresponding adjectives at WORDY): inflatedness or inflation, turgidity, tumidity, flatulence (see corresponding… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • redundancy — [ri dun′dən sē] n. pl. redundancies [L redundantia] 1. the state or quality of being redundant; superfluity 2. a redundant quantity; overabundance 3. the use of redundant words 4. the part of a redundant statement that is superfluous 5. Brit.… …   English World dictionary

  • redundancy — noun (BrE) ADJECTIVE ▪ large scale, major, mass, massive ▪ The closure of the mine led to large scale redundancies. ▪ possible, threatened ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • redundancy */*/ — UK [rɪˈdʌndənsɪ] / US noun Word forms redundancy : singular redundancy plural redundancies 1) [countable/uncountable] British a situation in which someone is told to leave their job because they are no longer needed face redundancy: Over 500… …   English dictionary

  • redundancy — noun /ˈriˌdʌndən̩si,ˈrɪdʌndən̩(t)si/ a) The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness …   Wiktionary

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