Redundancy
noun
The state of being not needed or no longer used.
The company is closing down the factory, making 300 jobs redundant.
Often appears as...
- pay off with redundancy
- make redundant
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Formal
noun
Extra things that are not needed.
The system has a high level of redundancy built in to cope with emergencies.
Often appears as...
- create redundancy
- high level of redundancy
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Formal
noun
Money paid by an employer when someone loses their job.
She received a large redundancy payment when she was laid off.
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- redundancy payment
- receive redundancy
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Formal
noun
The state of being not needed or no longer used.
The company is closing down the factory, making 300 jobs redundant.
Often appears as...
- pay off with redundancy
- make redundant
Usage tips
Formal
noun
Extra things that are not needed.
The system has a high level of redundancy built in to cope with emergencies.
Often appears as...
- create redundancy
- high level of redundancy
Usage tips
Formal
noun
Money paid by an employer when someone loses their job.
She received a large redundancy payment when she was laid off.
Often appears as...
- redundancy payment
- receive redundancy
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Job Loss
Indicates losing a job because it's unnecessary, not fault-based dismissal.
The recession led to redundancy for many employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
May carry a sense of loss or disappointment for workers.
The redundancy of my position left me feeling unwanted.
Pro Tip 3/3Corporate Change
Often related to organizational restructuring or downsizing.
Company mergers can result in the redundancy of certain jobs.
Pro Tip 1/3Job Loss
Indicates losing a job because it's unnecessary, not fault-based dismissal.
The recession led to redundancy for many employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
May carry a sense of loss or disappointment for workers.
The redundancy of my position left me feeling unwanted.
Pro Tip 3/3Corporate Change
Often related to organizational restructuring or downsizing.
Company mergers can result in the redundancy of certain jobs.
Pro Tip 1/3Job Loss
Indicates losing a job because it's unnecessary, not fault-based dismissal.
The recession led to redundancy for many employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Emotion
May carry a sense of loss or disappointment for workers.
The redundancy of my position left me feeling unwanted.
Pro Tip 3/3Corporate Change
Often related to organizational restructuring or downsizing.
Company mergers can result in the redundancy of certain jobs.
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Paul Moller: Take a ride...
With those three systems, you have what is always necessary -- a level of redundancy that says, if one system fails, you'll still have a way to make sure that you're being controlled. Because if you're in this world, where computers are controlling what you're doing, it's going to be very critical that something can't fail on you.
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The Collapse of West...
But it also dramatically reduced the redundancy in the system. SAM For those of you at home who never took an interest in civil engineering, let me spell it out for you. Redundancy equals safety. So if they hadn't done this with the lowest bidder, there's a possibility that that failure would have happened,
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What You Can Do to...
which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. People who have more years of formal education, who have a high degree of literacy, who engage regularly in mentally stimulating activities, all have more cognitive reserve. They have an abundance and a redundancy in neural connections.
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How autonomous flying...
Electric flight, in particular, unlocks new possibilities for vehicle configurations that we just could not explore in the past. If you use electric motors, you can have many of them around the aircraft, and it doesn't add a lot of extra weight. And that gives you redundancy and safety.
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The cancer gene we all...
One copy you inherited from Mom, the other from Dad. This redundancy is a good a thing because you only need one functioning BRCA1 gene in a cell to regulate the cell cycle. But it's important to note that while these copies have a similar function they're not necessarily the same.
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The astounding athletic...
Conventional wisdom says that you need at least four fixed motor propeller pairs in order to fly, because there are four degrees of freedom to roll, pitch, yaw and acceleration. Hexacopters and octocopters, with six and eight propellers, can provide redundancy,
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Let the environment...
command and control thinking, looking at efficiencies and optimization towards a much more flexible, a much more adaptive approach, where we recognize that redundancy, both in social and environmental systems, is key to be able to deal
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How to build a business...
actually cropped up again and again, from redundancy through to embeddedness. In fact, we saw these principles not only in biologically enduring systems, we also found them being very characteristic of long-lived social systems,
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Building a city for the...
of free state it also as our kids would know those of us it allows for efficiency and redundancy if we imagine a city designed for her citizens our city our first phase is the small circle you see comparing itself to larger
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Adventures of an...
Or they came across another robot, they had to be able to make decisions. Or even if half of them fell out, their batteries died, they still had to be able to finish that task. Now, I've talked about redundancy.
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Paul Moller: Take a ride...
With those three systems, you have what is always necessary -- a level of redundancy that says, if one system fails, you'll still have a way to make sure that you're being controlled. Because if you're in this world, where computers are controlling what you're doing, it's going to be very critical that something can't fail on you.
Video examples
The Collapse of West...
But it also dramatically reduced the redundancy in the system. SAM For those of you at home who never took an interest in civil engineering, let me spell it out for you. Redundancy equals safety. So if they hadn't done this with the lowest bidder, there's a possibility that that failure would have happened,
Video examples
What You Can Do to...
which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. People who have more years of formal education, who have a high degree of literacy, who engage regularly in mentally stimulating activities, all have more cognitive reserve. They have an abundance and a redundancy in neural connections.
Video examples
How autonomous flying...
Electric flight, in particular, unlocks new possibilities for vehicle configurations that we just could not explore in the past. If you use electric motors, you can have many of them around the aircraft, and it doesn't add a lot of extra weight. And that gives you redundancy and safety.
Video examples
The cancer gene we all...
One copy you inherited from Mom, the other from Dad. This redundancy is a good a thing because you only need one functioning BRCA1 gene in a cell to regulate the cell cycle. But it's important to note that while these copies have a similar function they're not necessarily the same.
Video examples
The astounding athletic...
Conventional wisdom says that you need at least four fixed motor propeller pairs in order to fly, because there are four degrees of freedom to roll, pitch, yaw and acceleration. Hexacopters and octocopters, with six and eight propellers, can provide redundancy,
Video examples
Let the environment...
command and control thinking, looking at efficiencies and optimization towards a much more flexible, a much more adaptive approach, where we recognize that redundancy, both in social and environmental systems, is key to be able to deal
Video examples
How to build a business...
actually cropped up again and again, from redundancy through to embeddedness. In fact, we saw these principles not only in biologically enduring systems, we also found them being very characteristic of long-lived social systems,
Video examples
Building a city for the...
of free state it also as our kids would know those of us it allows for efficiency and redundancy if we imagine a city designed for her citizens our city our first phase is the small circle you see comparing itself to larger
Video examples
Adventures of an...
Or they came across another robot, they had to be able to make decisions. Or even if half of them fell out, their batteries died, they still had to be able to finish that task. Now, I've talked about redundancy.
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James Spader
American Actor
When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.
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David Olusoga
British Historian
Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the money to pay the redundancies of workers they can no longer afford to employ. Many of these grand Victorian buildings will be turned into flats that most people will never be able to afford.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.
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Bill Dedman
American Journalist
Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
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Sean Dyche
English Businessman
My brother works at Weetabix in Kettering. That was taken over, there were redundancies. My other brother is a builder who has lost jobs, lost work. Football is not immune from that, it just happens to be in more of a spotlight.
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Cass Sunstein
American Lawyer
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
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Dennis Prager
American Journalist
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
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Bo Bennett
American Businessman
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
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Larry Hagman
American Actor
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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James Spader
American Actor
When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.
Quote examples
David Olusoga
British Historian
Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the money to pay the redundancies of workers they can no longer afford to employ. Many of these grand Victorian buildings will be turned into flats that most people will never be able to afford.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.
Quote examples
Bill Dedman
American Journalist
Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
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Sean Dyche
English Businessman
My brother works at Weetabix in Kettering. That was taken over, there were redundancies. My other brother is a builder who has lost jobs, lost work. Football is not immune from that, it just happens to be in more of a spotlight.
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Cass Sunstein
American Lawyer
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
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Dennis Prager
American Journalist
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
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Bo Bennett
American Businessman
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
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Larry Hagman
American Actor
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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