Redundancy | Mean of redundancy in English Dictionary

/rɪˈdʌndənsi/

• Noun
• the act of using a word, phrase, etc., that repeats something else and is therefore unnecessary
1. Avoid redundancy in your writing.
• a word, phrase, etc., that repeats something else and is therefore unnecessary
1. Try to avoid using redundancies in your writing.
• a part in a machine, system, etc., that has the same function as another part and that exists so that the entire machine, system, etc., will not fail if the main part fails
1. The design incorporates several redundancies.
2. a system with a high level of redundancy

• the act of ending the employment of a worker or group of workers
1. compulsory/voluntary redundancies [=layoffs]
2. The restructuring is expected to result in the redundancy of several hundred workers.
• the fact of being dismissed from a job because you are no longer needed
1. The workers are now facing redundancy.