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Adjective: redundant  ri'dúndunt
  1. More than is needed, desired, or required
    "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"
    - excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
     
  2. Repetition of same sense in different words
    "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"
    - pleonastic, tautologic, tautological
     
  3. [Brit, Cdn] Laid off work because the job position was no longer needed
    - riffed [US]

See also: prolix, redundance, redundancy, unnecessary, unneeded

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