Superfluous vs Redundancy - What's the difference?
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In excess of what is required or sufficient.
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.
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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.
As an adjective superfluous
is in excess of what is required or sufficient.As a noun redundancy is
the state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.superfluous
English
Adjective
(-)- With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous .
Synonyms
* excessive, extraneous, extra, pleonastic, supernumerary, surplus, unnecessary, extravagantCoordinate terms
* gratuitousredundancy
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.