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Word: redundancy (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • mostly|British|Australia|NZ The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
  • 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.
  • The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.

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