Retrenchment vs Redundant - What's the difference?
retrenchment | redundant |
A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
(military, dated) A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).
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 retrenchment
is a reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.As an adjective redundant is
superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.retrenchment
English
(wikipedia retrenchment)Noun
(en noun)redundant
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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.