Retirement vs Redundant - What's the difference?
retirement | redundant |
An act of retiring; withdrawal.
* 2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632463]
(uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion.
The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
(obsolete) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
(chiefly, British) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed; as in "rendered redundant".
Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
* 2013 , Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems , page 142:
As a noun retirement
is an act of retiring; withdrawal.As an adjective redundant is
superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.retirement
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Noun
- The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.
Synonyms
* (act of retiring) departure, withdrawment * (state of being retired) privacy, seclusion, solitude * (place of seclusion or privacy) retreatredundant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.