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redundant acronym syndrome

redundant acronym syndrome is the alternative form of RAS syndrome.

Meaning of RAS syndrome

Noun

RAS syndrome (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome, a tautology in which one or more words that make up an acronym or initialism are used redundantly in conjunction with said abbreviation.

Questions about redundant acronym syndrome

What is redundant acronym syndrome the alternative form of?
Redundant acronym syndrome is the alternative form of RAS syndrome.

Words near redundant acronym syndrome in the dictionary

  1. redundance
  2. redundances
  3. redundancies
  4. redundancy
  5. redundant
  6. redundant acronym syndrome
  7. redundant array of independent disks
  8. redundant biomass
  9. redundant colon
  10. redundant colons
  11. redundantant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redundant acronym syndrome (page history and authors); RAS syndrome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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