1
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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2
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
While controller shortages do begin to erode some of those redundancies, contingency plans are in place to help protect the system.
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Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
The air traffic control system is multi-layered and has redundancies built into it to ensure an incredibly safe environment.
—Brian Strzempkowski, The Conversation, 11 Oct. 2025
If there is no deal, the White House has ordered federal agencies to make plans for the large-scale redundancies.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
It’s now emerged that key unscripted executives including Gretchen Stockdale, COO of Pilgrim Media Group, are exiting as a result of the redundancies.
—Peter White, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Conduct a technology audit to identify redundancies, inefficiencies and compliance gaps.
—Jay Deady, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 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
Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
The air traffic control system is multi-layered and has redundancies built into it to ensure an incredibly safe environment.
—Brian Strzempkowski, The Conversation, 11 Oct. 2025
If there is no deal, the White House has ordered federal agencies to make plans for the large-scale redundancies.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
It’s now emerged that key unscripted executives including Gretchen Stockdale, COO of Pilgrim Media Group, are exiting as a result of the redundancies.
—Peter White, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Conduct a technology audit to identify redundancies, inefficiencies and compliance gaps.
—Jay Deady, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redundancies
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In this approach, BESS handles rapid fluctuations within milliseconds, absorbing short-term surpluses or deficits.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Oct. 2025
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What regulated actual Southern credit markets, when bondpeople were used as collateral for loans, were surpluses from slave labor, not short-term fluctuations in slave prices.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya have challenged their dismissals as unlawful.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
17 Oct. 2025
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Former agency employees doubted the administration’s claim that some dismissals were caused by coding errors.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The measured abundances of the light elements throughout the Universe verified the predictions of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, while also demonstrating the need for fusion in stars to provide the heavy elements in our cosmos.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 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.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Trade unions are few and attempts to organize are met with threats, firings and, in some cases, violence, the workers said.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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During the McCarthy era, firings came by memo, not trial.—
Alexis Coe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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The layoffs to the special education office, affecting 121 employees, would primarily alter the ability of the department to conduct oversight of how the money is spent.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Trump’s popularity on the economy has remained low amid a mix of tariffs, federal worker layoffs and partisan sniping that has culminated in a government shutdown.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Redundancies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redundancies. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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