noun
Meaning 1
The state of being redundant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
redundancy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdʌnd(ə)nsi/
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General-American: /ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/
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General-American: /ɹə-/
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noun
Meaning 2
A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2006, Lauren Bean, Richard E. Friedman, Chapter 5: School Safety in the Twenty First Century: Adapting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11, James J. F. Forest (editor), Homeland Security: Protecting America′s Targets, Volume 2: Public Spaces and Social Institutions, page 108, Staff redundancy is needed in the event that a supervisor and key unit supervisors are not present or unable to act in an emergency.
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noun
Meaning 4
Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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?
- 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 [...] .
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noun
Meaning 6
surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 7
repetition of an act needlessly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: repetition, repeating
noun
Meaning 8
the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: redundance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
Narrower terms: fifth wheel, deadwood
noun
Meaning 9
(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: configuration, constellation
noun
Meaning 10
repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: repetitiveness, repetitiousness
History
Etymology
From redundant + -cy.
Across languages
Translations
72 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: излишък (izlišǎk) — state of being redundant
- Chinese Mandarin: 冗余 (rǒngyú) — state of being redundant
- Dutch: overtolligheid — state of being redundant
- Dutch: redundantie — state of being redundant
- Finnish: tarpeettomuus — state of being redundant
- Finnish: redundanssi — state of being redundant
- Finnish: ylimäärä — state of being redundant
- French: redondance — state of being redundant
- German: Redundanz — state of being redundant
- Hungarian: redundancia — state of being redundant
- Hungarian: terjengősség — state of being redundant
- Hungarian: nélkülözhetőség — state of being redundant
- Hungarian: fölöslegesség — state of being redundant
- Hungarian: szükségtelenség — state of being redundant
- Indonesian: redundansi — state of being redundant
- Italian: ridondanza — state of being redundant
- Italian: copiosità — state of being redundant
- Italian: eccessività — state of being redundant
- Japanese: 冗長 (jōchō) — state of being redundant
- Japanese: 冗長性 (jōchōsei) — state of being redundant
- Korean: 중복성 (jungbokseong) — state of being redundant
- Māori: tāweretanga — state of being redundant
- Norwegian: redundans — state of being redundant
- Portuguese: redundância — state of being redundant
- Portuguese: repetição — state of being redundant
- Russian: чрезме́рность (črezmérnostʹ) — state of being redundant
- Russian: избы́точность (izbýtočnostʹ) — state of being redundant
- Serbo-Croatian: redundantnost — state of being redundant
- Serbo-Croatian: zalihosnost — state of being redundant
- Serbo-Croatian: suvišnost — state of being redundant
- Spanish: redundancia — state of being redundant
- Spanish: superabundancia — state of being redundant
- Swedish: redundans — state of being redundant
- Turkish: artıklık — state of being redundant
- Catalan: redundància — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Dutch: back-up — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Esperanto: redundo — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Finnish: varmennus — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Finnish: päällekkyys — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Finnish: varajärjestelmä — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Finnish: redundanssi — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- French: redondance — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- German: Redundanz — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Italian: ridondanza — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Korean: 중복 (jungbok) — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Russian: избы́точность (izbýtočnostʹ) — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Spanish: redundancia — duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components
- Dutch: redundantie — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Esperanto: redundo — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Finnish: redundanssi — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Finnish: toiste — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- French: redondance — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- German: Redundanz — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Italian: ridondanza — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Korean: 용장 (yongjang) — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Korean: 잉여 (ing'yeo) — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Russian: избы́точность (izbýtočnostʹ) — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Spanish: redundancia — duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors
- Armenian: կրճատում (krčatum) — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Chinese Mandarin: 失業 /失业 (shīyè) — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Chinese Mandarin: 下崗 /下岗 (xiàgǎng) — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Dutch: boventalligheid — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Finnish: henkilöstövähennys — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- French: chômage économique — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- German: betriebsbedingte Kündigung — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- German: strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Hungarian: létszámcsökkentés — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Hungarian: létszámleépítés — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Hungarian: leépítés — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Hungarian: elbocsátás — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Hungarian: létszámfelettiség — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary
- Korean: 실업 (sireop) — state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary