redundancy
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
Deliberate repetition or overlap built into communication to catch errors.
Read-back adds useful redundancy so a mishearing is caught before it reaches the patient.
Law noun
Loss of a job because the role is no longer needed.
Staff were offered redundancy as the plant wound down.
Business noun
The dismissal of an employee because their role is no longer needed.
Closing the warehouse means around forty redundancies by year-end.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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