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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
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redound
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin r?dund?, from r? + und? (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???da?nd/, /???da?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Verb
redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:
- The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
Related terms
- redundance
- redundancy
- redundant
Translations
Noun
redound (plural redounds)
- A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
Anagrams
- rounded, underdo
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