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Word for the day: Redundant

Definition for redundant provided by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Other important copyright information

ADJECTIVE
1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous. 2. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: "a student paper filled with redundant phrases." 3. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy. 4. Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed. 5. Electronics Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment. 6. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.

ETYMOLOGY
Latin redundansredundant- present participle of redundare, to overflow, re-, red-, re-, + undare, to surge, from unda, wave. wed-

OTHER FORMS
re·dun'dant·ly - ADVERB

Example: These complaint threads about UN are redundant.

For crying out loud, take this crap to the PM's.