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Another word for redundancy

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Noun

  1. Words or the use of words in excess of those needed for clarity or precision

    See also:

    words

    style

    excess

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Another word for redundancy

Noun
  1. See also:

    wordiness

    repetition

    excess

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • That the Baltic Stream must be a surface current, because it originates from a redundancy of fresh water.

  • In fact, the great blemishes of In Memoriam, its redundancy and the dislocation of its parts, were largely due to the desultory manner of its composition.

  • He was famed in antiquity for the richness and splendour of his imagination and his style, although Quintilian censures his redundancy and Hermogenes remarks on the excessive sweetness that results from his abundant use of epithets.

  • The plan should also offer redundancy, such as training backup employees to handle tasks in case one employee is no longer available.

  • redundancy pay is by any measure quite low.

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