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redundancynoun the use of too many words to express an ideaeven though the phrase "free gift" is a redundancy, many retailers still use it to assure customers that an item is really free circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, verbalism, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness circuitousness, circularity, digressivenesspleonasm, tautologyreiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitivenessembellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or neededthere's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area bellyful, excess, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage abundance, bounty, plentitude, plenty, profusion, sufficiencyoverproduction, overstock deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply dearth, lack, scarcity, want chiefly Britishthe termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarilyseveral dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy ax(or axe), discharge, dismissal, furlough, layoff pink slipbird(chiefly British), boot, bum's rush, downsizing, firing, heave-ho, sackclosing, shutdownshakeout, shake-up callback, recall, reemployment, rehire, rehiring in 1601 |