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RAS syndrome en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by science magazine New Scientist in 2001.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, uncountable) Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome, a tautology in which one or more words that make up an acronym or initialism are used redundantly in conjunction with said abbreviation.

Relateds

recursive acronym · pleonasm · Department of Redundancy Department