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redundancy
English
Etymology
redundant +? -cy
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d?nd(?)nsi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???d?nd?n(t)si/, /??-/
- Hyphenation: re?dun?dan?cy
Noun
redundancy (countable and uncountable, plural redundancies)
- The state of being redundant
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language
- 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.
- 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,
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) 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 […] .
- 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,
- In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
- 1981, New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates, Volume 442, page 4212,
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Synonyms
- (state of being redundant): redundance (rare), pro-chrono continuum (rare), superfluity, superfluousness
- (thing that is redundant): dead wood, superfluity
- (duplication in case of transmission error): backup
- (state of being unemployed): retirement
- (instance or act of dismissal): sacking
Antonyms
- (state of being redundant): non-redundancy
- (state of being unemployed): employment
- (instance or act of dismissal): hiring
Hyponyms
- space redundancy
- time redundancy
Derived terms
- Common Access Redundancy Protocol
- cyclic redundancy check/CRC
- Department of Redundancy Department
- redundancy check
Translations
References
- redundancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
redundancy From the web:
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- what redundancy pay
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furlough
English
Etymology
From Dutch verlof (“furlough”), probably from Middle Low German verl?f (“furlough, permission”), from the verb verl?ven (“to allow”). From Middle Low German also German Verlaub, Danish forlov.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fur?lough
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??(?).l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f?.lo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)l??
Noun
furlough (countable and uncountable, plural furloughs)
- A leave of absence or vacation.
- (US) especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
- And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
- (Britain) especially one granted to a missionary.
- (US) especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
- The documents authorizing such leave.
- A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:furlough.
Translations
Verb
furlough (third-person singular simple present furloughs, present participle furloughing, simple past and past participle furloughed)
- (transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).
- (transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.
Translations
Further reading
- furlough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
furlough From the web:
- what furlough means
- what furlough means in spanish
- what furlough can i claim
- what furlough pay
- what furlough pay will i get
- what furlough pay should i receive
- what furlough can i claim in november
- what furlough pay am i entitled to
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