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 The automaker had 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, 24 July 2026 Corinaldesi ruled out layoffs or redundancies, quashing the concerns of local trade union Filcams Cgil over the fate of the 200 workers employed by LuisaViaRoma at the time. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2026 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 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

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Both post test scores far below the state average, and the funding formula leaves Hartford’s own school district starved while CREC thrives with surpluses.

— State Rep Maryam Khan, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 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

Definition of surpluses

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Women are increasingly leveraging AI tools like Claude to navigate their healthcare, seeking control and addressing historical dismissals within the medical system.

— Amy Shoenthal, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
But there are also several reasons to suggest he simply couldn’t be trusted to lead the red-ball side — from his off-field antics in New Zealand last winter, to his penchant for daft dismissals at crucial moments in games.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of dismissals

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In recent years, officials in cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia have moved to rein in the excesses of harm-reduction policies.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Take Derrida, whose brand of deconstruction came to stand for both the grandest insights and worst excesses of theory.

— Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of excesses

Noun

Pelley was shown the door with cause after confronting management over the firings at a June 1 meeting.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
The cuts include some firings, but mostly sending intelligence officials from other agencies who have been assigned to work at ODNI, such as the CIA, back to their primary jobs, according to The Washington Post.

— Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of firings

Noun

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

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