Redundancy
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈriˌdʌndən̩si/ ̩
- US IPA: /ˈrɪdʌndən̩(t)si/ ̩
Noun
- The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
- Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- (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.
- 1981, New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates, Volume 442, redundancies%22+staff+-intitle:%22redundancy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22redundancy%22|redundancies%22+staff+-intitle:%22redundancy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wBYAUMywFI-jiAfvrKCOCA&redir_esc=y 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, redundancies%22+staff+-intitle:%22redundancy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22redundancy%22|redundancies%22+staff+-intitle:%22redundancy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wBYAUMywFI-jiAfvrKCOCA&redir_esc=y 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....
- 2003, K. Brendow, Restructuring Estonia′s Oil Shale Industry: What Lessons from the Restructuring the Coal Industries in Central and Eastern Europe?, Oil Shale (journal), redundancies%22+staff+-intitle:%22redundancy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wBYAUMywFI-jiAfvrKCOCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 307,In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
- (legal) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Antonyms
- (state of being redundant) non-redundancy
- (thing that is redundant)
- (duplication in case of failure)
- (duplication in case of transmission error)
- (state of being unemployed) employment
- (instance or act of dismissal) hiring
- (surplus remarks on a plea)
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