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What does redundancy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word redundancy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
  2. Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
  3. Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
  4. (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.
  5. (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
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All local authorities stressed that every effort would be made to redeploy teachers, offer them voluntary redundancy or early retirement.
Meanwhile, there are fears some temporary staff may be laid off this week and 45 trainee pilots are also facing immediate redundancy.
The firm said it hoped many of the job losses would be through voluntary redundancy.
Amalgamating the control rooms resulted in the loss of half of the staff through redundancy and natural wastage.
Sure, there's a good deal of redundancy here, but such redundancy is often rhetorically valuable.
Optimism may be sustained for a while by redundancy payments, tax rebates, and by the belief that finding another job will be easy.

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