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• He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.From the entry job
• To put it more directly: he's not 'made redundant' but sacked.From the entry directly
• With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.From the entry stranded
• They had been living in straitened circumstances after John was made redundant.From the entry straitened circumstances
• English's use of the French loanword "RSVP" often leaves it grammatically unanalyzed, yielding "please RSVP", which is venially redundant (lit. "please please respond").From the entry unanalyzed
• In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.2023, Gustav Djupsjöbacka, The Songs of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance, page 81. From the entry postlude
• He's redundant at DC, and none of Marvel's Captain Ersatzes have been half as good.2020 August 31, TheOtherMaven, “If DC and marvel could swap two characters to be in each others universe permanently which two would you…. From the entry Captain Ersatz
• The selective algorithm excludes the redundant classifiers to construct a streamlined ensemble learning.2016, Xingming Sun, Alex Liu, Han-Chieh Chao, Cloud Computing and Security: Second International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Nanjing, China…. From the entry selective
• A redundant observation about Ben Fouhy: It's not easy being him.March 10 2012, New Zealand Herald, Michele Hewitson interview: Ben…. From the entry cut both ways
• How is it redundant to show the meanings of the words through endings?1996 December 15, Tom Wier, “Opinions on EU language(s)”, in sci.lang (Usenet). From the entry variëty
• In the English sentence "The sociëty's cash flow this year is rather low" has no redundant aspects.1996 December 15, Tom Wier, “Opinions on EU language(s)”, in sci.lang (Usenet). From the entry variëty
• For eons, the Coasties have served as the final redundant safety systems of our boats.1991 Jan-Jun, Bearkeley Breathed, “Coastie Etiquette: Proper manners during a Coast Guard Drug Inspection”, in Boating, volume 64, numbers…. From the entry coastie
• Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 42. From the entry lubricity
• Stolest creptst may represent unresolved alternatives in the author’s manuscript, and durst dare is redundant.D[aniel] H[olt] Woodward (1970), “Commentary”, in The Poems and Translations of Robert Fletcher, Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida…. From the entry creptst
• "When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains.2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45. From the entry get rid of
• He demands attention and laughs, even though his character is essentially redundant and often randomly absent from ensemble moments.2025 March 4, Kate E. Ravenscroft, “'101 Damnations' Review: Lost Paradise with the Hasty Pudding”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge…. From the entry fraccent
• So words like great, excellent and horrible are rendered redundant in Newspeak, replaced by “plusgood”, “doubleplusgood” and “doubleplusungood” respectively.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet. From the entry intensifier
• Informing an employee that he or she has been made redundant by a singagram would be totally inappropriate.2015, Andy Mottershead, Alex Grant, Judith Kelt, OCR Business for A Level. From the entry singagram
• What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."2007 September 16, Alex Mindlin, quoting David Helene, “'Our Year Is the Most Competitive Year in the History of College Applications. Or…. From the entry type
• Redundant really - who would advertise themselves as NSOH ?2000 January 14, jh...@world-net.co.nz, “What is this?”, in nz.general (Usenet). From the entry NSOH
• An additional mechanism of type-shifting is, at best, redundant.1998, Irene Heim, Angelika Kratzer, Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry type-shifting
• “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.”1985 August 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, quoting Deborah Meyer, “Computers Ease the Load — At Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry deskill
• The width of the macrodactylic digit cannot be reduced unless the redundant segment of the nerve is resected.1974, H. Kelikian, Congenital deformities of the hand and forearm. From the entry macrodactylic
• All back-doubles, short-cuts, and roundabout time-savers became redundant.1972, The Motor, Published by Temple Press Ltd., p.24. From the entry back-double
• Both oversimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are incomplete) and undersimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are redundant) of reality can lead to trustless explanation and unfaithful prediction.2016 January 23, “Spatial Autocorrelation Approaches to Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry undersimplification
• In our rapidly changing business environment, rulebooks swiftly become redundant, and businesses must rely on their senior executives to be confident in their decisions.2012 August 30, Rose Hoare, “How seeing the big picture could bring success, fulfillment”, in CNN. From the entry rulebook
• Last but not least, increasing medialization, especially the argumented role of TV and internet for the leisure and recreation industry renders many associations redundant.2012, Gert Pickel, Kornelia Sammet, Transformations of Religiosity, →ISBN. From the entry argumented
• These systems typically come with multiple high-speed processors and redundant subsystems, offer data storage in the hundreds-of-gigabytes range, and use mainframelike restoral and security techniques.2002, Nathan J. Muller, Network manager's handbook, page 179. From the entry mainframelike
• Most commonly, it is two or more people or organizations doing similar work for similar purposes and producing (it is hoped) similar (redundant) results.1985, Datamation, volume 31, Newton, Mass.: Cahners Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1. From the entry Department of Redundancy Department
• In HIV-1 and foamy viruses, the polyadenylation signal (poly(A) signal) is found at both extremities of the viral progenome, in the redundant 5’ and 3’ long terminal repeats (LTRs).2015 July 11, “Cauliflower mosaic virus Transcriptome Reveals a Complex Alternative Splicing Pattern”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry progenome
• Traditionally, you fixed the problem by offlining the disk and re-creating the disk's extents on a different disk using redundant extent copies and then dropping the failed disk.2008, Sam Alapati, Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration, page 908. From the entry offline
• The opening of the Suez canal, just after the Cutty Sark was built, quickly made tea clippers redundant as steamers benefited from a shorter sea route.2007 May 21, James Sturcke, Peter Walker, agencies, “Fire devastates Cutty Sark”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry tea clipper
• ERA meant the equality of women, to those who urgently sought it, to those who abhorred it, and to those who found it obvious if not entirely redundant.1983, Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Excerpts from MacKinnon/Schlafly Debate”, in Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, volume 1, number 2. From the entry era
• In most applications involving identification numbers, each number may be verified for accuracy by a checkdigit, which is essentially a redundant digit added to the normal number.1975, COS 300/310 System Reference Manual, Maynard, MA: Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC-08-OCOSA-F-D, page E-1. From the entry checkdigit

Meaning of redundant

1. adjective Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary (and therefore no longer needed because other things fulfill its task or purpose).
2. adjective Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
3. adjective Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.

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Questions about redundant in a sentence

How do you use redundant in a sentence?

Redundant is used as an adjective. For example: “Four employees were made redundant.”

What is a short sentence with redundant?

“Four employees were made redundant.”

What does redundant mean?

Redundant means superfluous; exceeding what is necessary (and therefore no longer needed because other things fulfill its task or purpose).