REDUNDANCY in a Sentence

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They have added/deleted/amended a clause in the contract which says the company can make people redundant for economic reasons.

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 Meanings and Examples of REDUNDANCY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
redundancy
 n.  quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess
Classic Sentence:
1  Mrs. Trenor was a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  They were just beneath the wide white facade, with its rich restraint of line, which suggested the clever corseting of a redundant figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
4  Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  So far, the company says, more than 13,000 employees have taken voluntary redundancy or agreed to retire early.
2  Ultimately, the best way to get internet resilience is link redundancy.
3  The savings from eliminating redundancy is not being subtracted in calculating the true cost.
4  She was quite a child, perhaps seven or eight years old, slightly built, with a pale, small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist.
5  An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years.
6  You can hedge against redundancy or illness with insurance.
7  The company hopes the job cuts will be made through natural wastage and voluntary redundancy.
8  The threat of redundancy was still hanging over us.
9  I kind of redundant, will be redundant to become your excess.
10  My husband was made redundant late last year.
11  To keep the company alive, half the workforce is being made redundant.
12  The illustration had too much redundant detail.
13  The picture has too much redundant detail.
14  They have added/deleted/amended a clause in the contract which says the company can make people redundant for economic reasons.
15  Five of the company's senior managers have been made compulsorily redundant.