redundancy — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

large-scale, major, mass, massive

The company announced major redundancies after the merger with its competitor.

widespread | threatened | compulsory, enforced, forced | voluntary

QUANT

round, wave

The factory announced another round of redundancy affecting hundreds of workers across the company.

VERB + REDUNDANCY

make

The company made several redundancies last year when sales dropped significantly.

lead to, result in | avoid | announce

be threatened by/with, face

Many employees were threatened with redundancy when the company decided to close its office.

accept, take, volunteer for

After ten years with the firm, she decided to accept redundancy and start her own business.

REDUNDANCY + VERB

occur, take place

REDUNDANCY + NOUN

policy | programme

notice

After the company closed the factory, employees received redundancy notices in the mail.

compensation, package, terms | money, pay, payment

costs

The factory had to budget millions for redundancy costs when it closed three plants last year.

PHRASES

the threat of redundancy

Definitions

noun

1

The state of being redundant.

2

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.

3

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

Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.

5

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, 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 […] .

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded

redundance

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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[…] 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 b

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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

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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 Zeal

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04

RAID-1 achieves redundancy by mirroring data on several disks.

Tatoeba · #1270369

05

Your database contains lots of redundancy.

Tatoeba · #2573480

06

Tom's involuntary redundancy will force him to make some lifestyle changes.

Tatoeba · #3511253

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, redundancy is marked as UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.