名词

1. 裁减冗员;裁员
When there are redundancies, an organization tells some of its employees to leave because their jobs are no longer necessary or because the organization can no longer afford to pay them.

1. repetition of an act needlessly

2. the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded

e.g. the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers

Synonym: redundance

3. (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails

4. repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission