redundancy — re‧dun‧dan‧cy [rɪˈdʌndənsi] noun redundancies PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] especially BrE HUMAN RESOURCES when someone loses their job in a company because the job is no longer needed: • Over 2000 car workers now face redundancy. • Sev … Financial and business terms
Redundancy (information theory) — Redundancy in information theory is the number of bits used to transmit a message minus the number of bits of actual information in the message. Informally, it is the amount of wasted space used to transmit certain data. Data compression is a way … Wikipedia
Redundancy — may refer to: Redundancy (engineering) Redundancy (information theory) Redundancy (language) Redundancy (total quality management) Redundancy (user interfaces) Data redundancy Gene redundancy Logic redundancy Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome… … Wikipedia
redundancy — I noun duplication, excess, excessiveness, immoderation, inordinacy, inordinate amount, needlessness, nimiety, overplus, oversupply, pleonasm, recurrence, redundance, redundantia, reiteration, repetition, restatement, retelling, superabundance,… … Law dictionary
redundancy payment — UK US noun [C] (also redundancy pay [U]) ► HR money that a company pays to workers who have lost their jobs because they are no longer needed: eligible for/entitled to a redundancy payment »An employee becomes eligible for a redundancy payment… … Financial and business terms
redundancy — • ‘She is lively and vital enough to be a member of a terrorist gang.’ ‘Lively and vital,’ said Harvey, ‘lively and vital one of these words is redundant.’ Muriel Spark, 1984. English idiom is characterized by redundancy, or apparent redundancy,… … Modern English usage
redundancy payments — Whilst an employer may offer more under the employment agreement or ex gratia, the minimum statutory entitlement redundancy payments under the Employment Rights Act 1996 are as follows: 0.5 of a week s pay per year of service between 18 and 21; 1 … Law dictionary
redundancy package — UK US noun [C] ► HR all the payments and advantages that a company gives to workers who have lost their jobs because they are no longer needed: »If the redundancy package is very generous many staff will opt for that and not even consider… … Financial and business terms
Redundancy — См. Резервирование Термины атомной энергетики. Концерн Росэнергоатом, 2010 … Термины атомной энергетики
redundancy — theory of truth … Philosophy dictionary
redundancy — *verbiage, tautology, pleonasm, circumlocution, periphrasis Analogous words: wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, diffuseness (see corresponding adjectives at WORDY): inflatedness or inflation, turgidity, tumidity, flatulence (see corresponding… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
