REDUNDANCIES Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

redundancies

noun

plural of redundancy

as in surpluses

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed there's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area

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chiefly British the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily several dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy

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Recent Examples of redundancies Or perhaps, just like physical safety, there should be multiple redundancies and all must play their part. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 July 2026 Over the years, there have been lengthy fights over any suggestion of redundancies. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 Volkswagen agreed a deal with unions in late 2024 to avoid factory closures in Germany and rule out compulsory redundancies until the end of 2030. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 July 2026 To protect their downside, leaders can implement circuit breakers, establish structural redundancies, and operate proactively. — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Competing effectively means eliminating product redundancies, building premium proprietary models, connecting them to popular AI tools, and delivering enterprise utility while keeping costs low. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 27 June 2026 The redundancies may also cause grid planners to overestimate demand. — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2026 In some cases, clubs may decide to cut costs and redundancies can be a terrible consequence. — Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 May 2026 However, the indictment alleges the ship was using an incorrect fuel pump, which did not have redundancies. — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 20 May 2026

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Lamont’s chief fiscal focus since 2020 has been on channeling $11 billion in surpluses — forced by aggressive savings rules — to whittle down a hefty pension debt created over seven decades prior to 2011.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
Social Security is primarily funded through payroll tax revenue and can supplement its benefit payments through its trust funds, which hold previous surpluses plus interest.

— Lorie Konish, CNBC, 8 July 2026

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Cattelan spoke to the Financial Times about the strange afterlife of the work, which has become both a symbol of the art market’s excesses and a reminder of his talent for turning absurd ideas into global spectacles.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
But in the past 20 years, Cuba’s more progressive social policies have helped to redeem the authoritarian excesses of the revolution’s early years.

— Juan Carlos Albarran, The Conversation, 13 July 2026

Definition of excesses

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The hearing arrived at a tumultuous time for the Justice Department, with mass firings and resignations hollowing out the workforce and Democrats and other critics raising alarms that Blanche is still functioning as the president’s personal lawyer.

— Eric Tucker, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Kids who grew up near those hills remember the rumble and roar of Rocketdyne testing another rocket engine and the cloudbanks of smoke from the test firings.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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Researchers detected high abundances of sodium, likely from icy brines within the original asteroid.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Some samples from Jilin showed particularly high abundances of heavy rare earth elements compared to neighboring regions.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026

Definition of abundances

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Twenty-two percent of chief financial officers surveyed by Mercer in February said the high price of health benefits had forced them to stop hiring or led to layoffs.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
That’s partly due to low layoffs and a still-solid labor market, though low-income households are feeling the pain of price hikes and mounting debt more so than their high-income counterparts, who have benefited from a resilient stock market.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

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