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词汇 redundancy
释义 redundancy
noun[ C or U ]
uk /rɪˈdʌn.dən.si/ us /rɪˈdʌn.dən.si/

redundancynoun[C or U] (NOT EMPLOYED)


C1UK
a situation in which someone loses their job because their employer does not need them: 裁减工人
The economic downturn has meant 10,000 redundancies in the Northeast.由于经济衰退,东北地区有一万人失业。
She took voluntary redundancy.她选择了自愿裁汰。
I live in dread of redundancy.
There's a lot of redundancy in the area.
He was so fed up at work that redundancy was starting to look quite appealing.
Some people would opt for redundancy rather than redeployment.
They got rid of 80 staff in the latest round of redundancies.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of employment
admin
administrative
administrative assistant
administratively
at the coalfaceidiom
job-share
job-sharing
jobbing
jobless
joblessness
professionalism
professionality
qualified
recertify
redundant
well qualified
WFH
white-collar
who's whoidiom
wilderness yearsidiom

redundancynoun[C or U] (NOT NEEDED)


a situation in which something is unnecessary because it is more than is needed: (尤指词、短语等的)多余,累赘,啰唆
The aircraft has seven computer systems running in parallel, so as to provide enough redundancy to cope with computer breakdowns.
language specialized
the unnecessary use of more than one word or phrase meaning the same thing:
Avoid redundancy or unnecessary words.
"The phrase 'humourless workplace' is a redundancy," he says.
Synonym
tautology
He said the symposium has been invaluable in reducing redundancy in research.
All the programs are being scrutinized for effectiveness, and there is an emphasis on seeking out and eliminating redundancies.
In the case of images, considerable redundancy can be found simply by locating parts of the image that are the same.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Too much and unnecessary
ado
be up to your neck (in something)idiom
bellyful
binge
carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom
drown
gush
heavy-handed
hyper
immoderate
immoderately
inappeasable
infest
play gooseberryidiom
plenty
pleonasm
pleonastic
plethora
unwarranted
weigh someone/something down

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redundancy | Business English


redundancy
noun[ C or U ]
uk /rɪˈdʌndənsi/uspluralredundancies
HR
a situation in which someone loses their job because their employer does not need them:
The takeover is expected to result in over 1,000 redundancies.
be threatened with/face redundancy200 workers at the plant face redundancy.
volunteer for/take redundancyEmployees feel their only options are to move or take redundancy.
compulsory/voluntary redundancyThe bank has asked its 700 support staff to consider voluntary redundancy.
heavy/large-scale/widespread redundancies
a redundancy programme/scheme
redundancy costs
a redundancy notice
Compare
layoff

See also


collective redundancy
voluntary redundancy

Examples of redundancy


redundancy
The project was a response to the large number of redundancies that occurred when the town's railway works closed in 1986.
There are usually functional redundancies in the system provided by its components, which are overlooked because of the lack of information.
Exploring a long list to remove redundancies takes too much time unless potentially redundant expressions are grouped together.
In order to successfully communicate with an audience, we have to rely on the redundancies already proven to work within the small neighbourhoods.
We hope that this presentation method avoids redundancies in the description and enhances readability of the paper.
In addition to the above substantive criticisms, it must be noted that the book contains numerous redundancies.
Thus, it can be argued that actuation redundancies are force redundancies in some sense.
Practically, a cable manipulator with 16 cables has too many redundancies.
Methods for the elimination of these redundancies are presented.
Theorems 1 and 9 say that the more restrictive a semantics is, the more redundancies there are for the arguments of function symbols.
All the three methods to detect redundancies are different and useful.
Where there were redundancies, the expectation was that these would not be age-related.
Malaysians have their brand of prefixes, suffixes, redundancies, synonyms, adjectives or appellations - with local colloquialisms making major inroads into our daily lives.
I am interested simply in establishing that universal and language-particular principles conspire in any language to specify extensive sequential redundancies.
The change in the posttreatment productive repertoire was segmental only, and it qualitatively impacted phonemic redundancies.
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