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re·dun·dan·cy
 redundancy
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- pronunciation:
- rih
duhn
d
 n
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
redundancies |
| definition 1: |
the state or quality of being redundant.
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| definition 2: |
an unnecessary repetition of words; tautology.
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| definition 3: |
an excessive supply; overabundance.
- similar words:
- overabundance
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| definition 4: |
(chiefly British) the condition of workers being no longer needed by an employer, or the resulting dismissal or layoff.
The factory workers were faced with redundancy.The company anticipates 40 redundancies. |
| related words: |
excess, fat, glut |
adjective + (n.)redundancy
built-in, certain, considerable, cyclic, ecological, functional, massive, multiple, redundant, sequential, spatial, structural, stylistic, total
verb + (n.)redundancy
achieve, avoid, design, eliminate, employ, favor, provide, reduce, remove
(n.)redundancy
+ verb
backup, buffer, build, contain, exist, result
noun + (n.)redundancy
amount, architecture, data, diversity, duplication, elimination, gap, lack, language, reduction, representation, resiliency, scale, species, system, waste
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The word redundancy
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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