redundant
redundant
Definition
re·dun·dant (-dənt)
adjective
- more than enough; overabundant; excess; superfluous
- using more words than are needed; wordy
- unnecessary to the meaning: said of words and affixes
- Brit. laid off from work as no longer needed; discharged; dismissed
Etymology: L redundans, prp. of redundare: see redound
re·dun′·dantly adverb
redundant
Synonyms
redundant
modif.
Needless
superfluous, irrelevant, excess; see excessive, superfluous, unnecessary.Repetitious
verbose, wordy, repetitive, tautological; see verbose. See syn. study at verbose.
redundant
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- compulsorily: The council have also begun the process of making the three UNISON branch officers compulsorily redundant, by putting them on the redeployment register.
- largely: Now, whatever its value in the past, epidemiology today is a largely redundant science.
- somewhat: It has, anyhow, become somewhat redundant through the invention of photography.
- utterly: Personally, for convenience and cost, I'm amazed it hasn't rendered dating in Dallas utterly redundant.
- genuinely: It is agreed the buildings are genuinely redundant for agricultural purposes, and the Parish Council is in support of this proposed use.
- completely: Does anyone have any of these items, perhaps lying around in the shed or garage, completely redundant?
Preposition: at
- establishment: Employers were allowed to avoid the obligation to inform or consult if fewer than 20 people were made redundant at any one establishment.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- render: For no amount of money will ever render these issues redundant.
- make: Our biggest concern was having to make staff redundant.
Modifies a noun
- submarine: There are 11 redundant nuclear-powered submarines stored in Britain.
- barn: For many years, Watermeadow Barn was a redundant farm barn.
- miner: Reports of decisions of the Industrial Tribunal in matters relating to Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and the entitlement of redundant miners to redundancy payment.
- building: They have now opened dialog with the National Trust over the possibility of a joint scheme using a redundant second floor building.
- church: St Sampson's Social Center for the Over 60's St Sampson's was a redundant church in the center of York.
- configuration: In redundant sensor configurations, common cause failure becomes the dominant failure scenario.
Used with adjective complement
- declare: Redundant Churches Some churches in very small villages have been declared redundant.
- render: The pigs sensitive snouts, designed for rooting, are rendered redundant.
- make: Make redundant the things, the things you have wasted.
- become: The content seems to become redundant near the end of the first third of the book.
- seem: Therefore starting a series of articles here in Linux Focus seems redundant.
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