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redundancy Definition

re·dun·dancy (ri dun′dən sē)

noun pl. -·cies

  1. the state or quality of being redundant; superfluity
  2. a redundant quantity; overabundance
  3. the use of redundant words
  4. the part of a redundant statement that is superfluous
  5. Brit. discharge from a job or employment because of not being needed; dismissal

Etymology: L redundantia

redundancy Synonyms

redundancy

n.

verbosity, tautology, superfluity; see excess, repetition, wordiness.

redundancy Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • announce: At the beginning of September, Michelin caused a furor by announcing 7,500 redundancies.
  • enforce: He said that his enforced redundancy in May 1991 had coincided with increasingly poor health.
  • avoid: Managers are under instructions to avoid compulsory redundancies wherever possible.
  • propose: There are 150 proposed redundancies among staff in this area.
  • face: Gentleman will tell us how many teachers are facing redundancy right now?
  • eliminate: This is done to eliminate redundancy in the output and/or compute aggregates that apply to these groups.

Adjective modifier

  • compulsory: A number of compulsory redundancies is also being disputed.
  • collective: Collective redundancy A collective redundancy is where 20 or more employees are to be made redundant within a 90-day period.
  • voluntary: Penny then asked people to consider voluntary redundancy, which two members of staff did.
  • large-scale: National launch of the Job Transition Service, which provides tailored help for communities facing large-scale redundancies.
  • built-in: Built-in Redundancy - The roaming service includes multiple top-tier ISP networks so you gain high service availability in major business centers.
  • planned: BBC job cuts condemned BECTU has spoken out against 129 planned redundancies among BBC programme-makers.

Modifies a noun

  • payment: The excess of the redundancy payment over the basic award was £ 20,000.
  • entitlement: This will entail changes to the way statutory redundancy entitlements are calculated.
  • dismissal: Using staff flexibility ( within reasonable limits ) should maximize opportunities to avoid redundancy dismissals.
  • pay: Statutory redundancy pay is by any measure quite low.
  • situation: The enforced redundancy situation hit particularly hard at the Morton family.
  • package: We negotiated an enhanced redundancy package which we put to the members this week.

Noun used with modifier

  • dismissal: The implications for no upper age limit on unfair dismissal and/or redundancy claims.
  • scale: Where large scale redundancies are planned, this can be a significant liability.