Definition of "redundancy" []

• The state of being redundant. (noun)
• Something redundant or excessive; a superfluity. (noun)
• Repetition of linguistic information inherent in the structure of a language, as singularity in the sentence It works. (noun)
• Excessive wordiness or repetition in expression. (noun)
• Chiefly British The state or fact of being unemployed because work is no longer offered or considered necessary. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Those who take voluntary redundancy will receive their contractual notice period, the statutory ­redundancy payment and one month's salary."
• "DUH ... the idiots asking the questions kept asking the same thing over and over ... how about a little focus on that and the fact that political hacks making the hearings a study in redundancy is a waste of our time?"
• "Also, your argument that the language indicating the availability of mandamus should not be a redundancy is highly unpersuasive, maybe the purpose was to make sure that a direct interlocutory appeal would not be available under the collateral order doctrine, and alternatively, if the collateral order doctrine did not apply, to ensure that mandamus would be available despite the lack of an independent source of jurisdiction."