Redundancy

Quick meaning: Redundancy is a noun meaning The state of being redundant.

Meaning

The state of being redundant.

More Meanings

1. A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
2. A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
3. Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
4. (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
5. (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.

Example Sentences

In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.

[…] the fulneſs of the creature is limited, it ariſeth juſt to ſuch a degree and proportion, but Gods fulneſs is infinite, as it hath its Reſplendency, ſo its Redundancy, it knows neither bounds nor bottom.

1983, UK House of Commons, Papers by Command, Volume 40, page lvi, The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels […] .

1981, New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates, Volume 442, page 4212, Has he received any representation from Air New Zealand management about redundancy proposals for Air New Zealand staff; and, if so, do these proposals include redundancy agreements?

Word Forms

• redundancies

Synonyms for redundancy

Depending on context, synonyms include redundance, superfluity, superfluousness, backup, retirement, sacking.

Antonyms for redundancy

Common opposites include non-redundancy, employment, hiring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include redundance, repetition, denunciation, duplicate, redundant, repeat.

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