Dictionary

redundancy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /ɹə-/ (General-American)
• /ɹɪˈdʌnd(ə)nsi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From redundant + -cy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being redundant.
2. (countable, uncountable) A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
   • […] 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. 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 204:
3. (countable, uncountable) A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
   • 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.
4. (countable, uncountable) Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
5. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
   • As well as fighting against pay freezes (the RMT is about to ballot members of TransPennine Express), the union is seeking agreements with Network Rail and train operators that there will be no compulsory redundancies (it already has this agreement with ScotRail). [...] Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies. 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
   • 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?
   • In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account. 2003, K. Brendow, Restructuring Estonia′s Oil Shale Industry: What Lessons from the Restructuring the Coal Industries in Central and Eastern Europe?: Oil Shale, page 307:
   • 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 […] .
6. (countable, uncountable) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Forms

Antonyms

non-redundancy (antonym(s) of “state of being redundant”) · hiring (antonym(s) of “instance or act of dismissal”) · employment (antonym(s) of “state of being unemployed”)

Deriveds

antiredundancy · Common Access Redundancy Protocol · georedundancy · CRC · cyclic redundancy check · Department of Redundancy Department · redundancy check

Hyponyms

space redundancy · time redundancy

Synonyms

pro-chrono continuum (state of being redundant) · backup (duplication in case of transmission error) · superfluousness (state of being redundant) · dead wood (thing that is redundant) · sacking (instance or act of dismissal) · retirement (state of being unemployed) · redundance (state of being redundant) · superfluity (thing that is redundant) · superfluity (state of being redundant)

Translations (72)

nl boventalligheid (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · de Redundanz (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · ru избы́точность (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · ko 중복 (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · id redundansi (state of being redundant) · sh redundantnost (state of being redundant) · fr redondance (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · it ridondanza (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · hu létszámcsökkentés (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · es redundancia (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · hu elbocsátás (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · fr redondance (state of being redundant) · hu nélkülözhetőség (state of being redundant) · no redundans (state of being redundant) · fi redundanssi (state of being redundant) · sh suvišnost (state of being redundant) · fi ylimäärä (state of being redundant) · cmn 失業 /失业 (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · de betriebsbedingte Kündigung (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · nl back-up (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · hu létszámleépítés (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · es redundancia (state of being redundant) · eo redundo (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · sh zalihosnost (state of being redundant) · eo redundo (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · cmn 冗余 (state of being redundant) · it ridondanza (state of being redundant) · ru чрезме́рность (state of being redundant) · de strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · pt redundância (state of being redundant) · de Redundanz (state of being redundant) · de Redundanz (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · ru избы́точность (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · ja 冗長性 (state of being redundant) · ko 용장 (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · hu szükségtelenség (state of being redundant) · ko 잉여 (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · fi varajärjestelmä (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · fi päällekkyys (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · ca redundància (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · ko 중복성 (state of being redundant) · it ridondanza (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · nl redundantie (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · es superabundancia (state of being redundant) · hu fölöslegesség (state of being redundant) · hy կրճատում (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · sv redundans (state of being redundant) · fi tarpeettomuus (state of being redundant) · cmn 下崗 /下岗 (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · fi redundanssi (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · it eccessività (state of being redundant) · fi henkilöstövähennys (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · hu redundancia (state of being redundant) · bg излишък (state of being redundant) · it copiosità (state of being redundant) · nl redundantie (state of being redundant) · fi toiste (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · fr chômage économique (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · nl overtolligheid (state of being redundant) · mi tāweretanga (state of being redundant) · ko 실업 (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · es redundancia (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · hu létszámfelettiség (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · ru избы́точность (state of being redundant) · tr artıklık (state of being redundant) · fi varmennus (duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components) · pt repetição (state of being redundant) · hu leépítés (state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary) · ja 冗長 (state of being redundant) · fi redundanssi (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors) · hu terjengősség (state of being redundant) · fr redondance (duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors)