Redundancy vs Redound - What's the difference?
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The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
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,
Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
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,
* 1983 , UK House of Commons, Papers by Command , Volume 40,
* 2003 , K. Brendow, Restructuring Estonia?s Oil Shale Industry: What Lessons from the Restructuring the Coal Industries in Central and Eastern Europe?'', '' ,
(label) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
(obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
To contribute (to) an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
* Rogers
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, p. 448:
To contribute (to) the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
* 2008 , (Peter Preston), The Observer , 2 Mar 2008:
To reverberate, to echo.
To reflect (honour, shame etc.) (to) or (onto) someone.
To attach, come back, accrue (to) someone; to reflect back (on) or (upon) someone (of honour, shame etc.).
To arise (from) or (out of) something).
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
* Milton
Redound is a related term of redundancy.
As a noun redundancy
is the state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.As a verb redound is
to swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).redundancy
English
(wikipedia redundancy)Noun
(redundancies)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.
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?
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.
page 307,
- In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
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) * (state of being unemployed) retirement * (instance or act of dismissal) sackingAntonyms
* (state of being redundant) non-redundancy * (state of being unemployed) employment * (instance or act of dismissal) hiringredound
English
Verb
(en verb)- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 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.
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.