REDUNDANT
redundant
Adjective
- Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
- (Of speech, writing, and reading) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
- Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
- Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
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