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redundant English

Meaning redundant meaning

What does redundant mean?
Definitions in simple English

redundant

Extra; more than is needed. Repeating oneself or using extra words; saying the same thing again in a slightly different way. Being dismissed from a job because you are no longer needed.

redundant

(= excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus) more than is needed, desired, or required trying to lose excess weight found some extra change lying on the dresser yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant skills made redundant by technological advance sleeping in the spare room supernumerary ornamentation it was supererogatory of her to gloat delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts surplus cheese distributed to the needy (= pleonastic, tautological) repetition of same sense in different words 'a true fact' and 'a free gift' are pleonastic expressions the phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition — J.B.Conant

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Simple sentences

The company made most of its employees redundant.
Tom is redundant here.
The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
If two people have the same opinion, one of them is redundant.
Soldiers currently in theatre will not be made redundant.
Tom was made redundant.
It's redundant.

Movie subtitles

I served my country well as a regular soldier and was suitably rewarded after 25 years by being declared redundant.
I am redundant around here!
That seems rather redundant.
It's. metaphysical and redundant.
They are made redundant and have to look for jobs anywhere.
Redundant.
Your questioning is redundant.
Then I'll make a statement you won't find quite so redundant.
Again redundant.
But that seems redundant.
And you are redundant, Professor.
Redundant and fallacious.
That is redundant, You a-h.
In the deep, deep, Inner twit recesses. Of your redundant mind?
The whole goddamn thing's redundant.
Which in this case is redundant.
I have the feeling that educating you would be about as redundant as teaching a lion to like red meat.
The so-called astronaut would merely be a redundant component.
I can compensate for it by using the redundant units.
After which, he, like yourselves, will become. redundant.
Killing you is a bit redundant. isn't it?
They are what is called redundant.
The international situation, and all that. You know. They are made redundant and have to look for jobs anywhere.
Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and colour is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.
Well, well, that makes both the Doctor and you redundant, doesn't it?
The ancient information is written in exhaustive, careful, redundant detail.
Which in this case is redundant. But may I suggest we just deal with the bank-robbing charges?
Your crew is redundant.
He must be giving him a redundant circuit.
The so-called astronaut. would merely be a redundant component.
That's pretty redundant now, isn't it?

News and current affairs

Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
This levy would represent a sort of automatic fine, thus making the elaborate structure of the Pact redundant.
It was almost made redundant in the 1970s, when the US floated the dollar, only to be saved in 1982 by the Mexican debt crisis, which propelled it into the role of global financial lifeguard.
Paradoxically, if all people were honest, politics would become redundant.
But weak ties extend further and provide more novel, innovative, and non-redundant information.
In fact, for such a country, local experts are not just redundant, but dangerous.
The term has rarely been used before, and seems to be redundant.
If one machine can cut necessary human labor by half, why make half of the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time?
Moreover, some sorts of knowledge can rapidly become redundant.
After two catastrophic wars, Europeans decided to build institutions that would make military conflict redundant.
In today's world of deep and liquid global financial markets, the main lending instruments of the IMF and and the Bank are largely unnecessary and redundant.
A more globalized world needs global financial institutions, but ones that focus on coordination, supervision and technical advice, not redundant lending mechanisms.
They are also making the celebrated firm of the industrial age - an essential institution, which allowed for specialization and saved on transactions costs - redundant.
Today, many African countries are ravaged by conflict and, as the EU rendered war between its members redundant, practical regional integration could achieve the same in Africa.
People who might not stress that the government should protect failing businesses or redundant workers still have sympathies that might often lead to such outcomes.
None of this will render the OSCE or NATO redundant, and that should be no one's goal.
As machines become ever more productive, so wages tend to fall even more, toward zero, and the population becomes redundant.
Redundant workers have ended up in worse-performing activities, such as informal services, causing economy-wide productivity to stagnate, despite impressive manufacturing performance.
But, if the reforms in the realm of fiscal policy and coordination of economic policy are successful, such an institution would never need to act, and would thus be redundant.
Or Britain might have joined the euro, making its independent role redundant.
Hope has not, after all, become a redundant virtue in the twenty-first century.
Unemployment is a product of capitalism: people who are no longer needed are simply made redundant.

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