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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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as in dismissals
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
From there, look for redundancies, create guidelines and recommendations for team members to follow, and align your tech stack to match your team’s natural rhythm of work in order to continuously optimize digital workflows.
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Neil Henderson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Huang told Axios last month that the technology would ultimately lead to more jobs, even if there are some redundancies elsewhere.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
She was let go the day before redundancies were announced, while Gill’s own £1m-per-year deal has also been cut.
—Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
One clear signal of this scrutiny is the rise of SaaS spend management platforms that help businesses discover all the apps in use across their organization, detect redundancies and eliminate wasteful spend.
—Michael Zuercher, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
By eliminating bottlenecks and redundancies, BPM software ensures that projects move seamlessly from conception to completion.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2024
This means finding ways to do more with less time, effort and resources while eliminating redundancies.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
Overall, Taft was less concerned about the number of employees in a particular department than in streamlining work, installing the best people, and ensuring that his secretaries had removed redundancies.
—Laura Ellyn Smith / Made By History, TIME, 3 Dec. 2024
Neil Henderson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Huang told Axios last month that the technology would ultimately lead to more jobs, even if there are some redundancies elsewhere.
—Rob Wile, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
She was let go the day before redundancies were announced, while Gill’s own £1m-per-year deal has also been cut.
—Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
One clear signal of this scrutiny is the rise of SaaS spend management platforms that help businesses discover all the apps in use across their organization, detect redundancies and eliminate wasteful spend.
—Michael Zuercher, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
By eliminating bottlenecks and redundancies, BPM software ensures that projects move seamlessly from conception to completion.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2024
This means finding ways to do more with less time, effort and resources while eliminating redundancies.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
Overall, Taft was less concerned about the number of employees in a particular department than in streamlining work, installing the best people, and ensuring that his secretaries had removed redundancies.
—Laura Ellyn Smith / Made By History, TIME, 3 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redundancies
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Are places with smaller gaps or with retirement income surpluses necessarily better places to retire?—
Roxana Popescu,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Later, those conservative projections produce surpluses that are used to pay down debt and lower taxes.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The Michigan Attorney General's Office, which filed the charges, is appealing the dismissals of five of the seven cases in the double voting matter.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Managers will be submitting their list of dismissals to HR between September and October.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Aug. 2025
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The other study—an independent laboratory experiment—demonstrates how molecular hydrogen, a molecule essential for star formation, may have formed earlier and in larger abundances.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Aug. 2025
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Several of President Donald Trump‘s firings of independent agency heads have made their way through the Supreme Court‘s emergency docket, but Tuesday’s ruling in a federal appeals court likely moves the justices closer to overturning a 90-year precedent on the issue.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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Chicago Public Schools settled with two former Lincoln Park High School administrators last month, following a five-year legal battle that began after their 2020 firings based on claims that were eventually disputed.—
Kate Perez,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Sep. 2025
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When GenAI first captured widespread attention in 2023, smart companies built sustainable AI governance models, prioritized transparency and tackled employee displacement through reinvention rather than layoffs.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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How about the layoffs from agentics, the autonomous AI systems?—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Redundancies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redundancies. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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