redundancy
a set of words in common usage that includes a needless modifier. not to be confused with an oxymoron (where two terms of the same phrase literally contradict each other) or euphamism (a phrase used to change the emotional charge of a a word or phrase).
examples of actual redundancies:
– atm machine (“automatic teller machine machine”? just say “atm”.)
– pin number (“personal identification number number”?)
– “call now for your free gift!” (well of course it’s free, otherwise it wouldn’t be a gift!)
– end result
– bare naked
– past experience
a complete and utter result where you get to leave your mundane job behind and ‘focus on your career’ (that’s find another mcjob to normal people) with the added bonus of a payout not to do the job you hate any more.
officially, there’s a selection pool but it’ll generally be determined by how p-ssed off your manager is with you when ‘efficiency savings’ (that’s lay offs to us normal people) need to be made.
the best modern use of the phrase ‘crying all the way to the bank’.
employee is called into a room:
manager: profits have fallen and we need to make some efficiency savings. unfortunately (this is sh-t, your boss doesnt give a f-ck about you) your post has been selected for redundancy.
employee: oh no. this is terrible news.
will you pay my notice in lieu?
manager: yes
employee: what’s the payout?
manager: a month for every year of service. you’ll get £20,000 tax free.
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employee finds another job and has a pile of cash in their account.
most commonly used in britain, it means layoffs
in the office (great show) michael struggles with the fact that there may be a redundancy
1. a reference to a woman hot is both hot (attractive) and asian.
2. slang used on an east coast audio podcast show, the jone dome, to refer to an asian woman who is attractive.
derived on the basis that asian women are generally attractive, so a hot asian is a redundancy.
see also, half-a-redundancy which refers to a woman that is either hot or asian, not both.
ex.1: lucy liu is a total redundancy.
ex.2: let’s go down to chinatown and scope out some redundancies.
ex3. yeah, she’s hot, but half-a-redundancy
fail safe-back up
some abs modules use two computers for the same application as a redundancy in case one of them fail.
1/ a good amount of money
2/ the best way to make a move in your career
3/ it is a petty that i have to go just when this co. make me absolutly loved it
shortly after being made redudand, she married him
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- reduplication
a linguistic term for repeating a word twice. generally emphasizes the duplicated word, but american slang uses it to indicate that the word is being used in its truest or most specialized sense. “your cousin kissed you? you mean, like a _kiss_ kiss?” “was it a _date_ date or just a date?”
- Regulation reds
the red plastic beverage cups that are consistently abundant at any college/university party or kegger. the go-to cup for standard beer pong and flip cup matches. “beer pong tourny at our place tonight; gotta go pick up some regulation reds.”
- retro-temporal-autoeroticism
the act of traveling back in time and haveing s-x with your self. if you travle back in time and have s-x with your self, you have practiced retro-temporal-autoeroticism
- reupholstered
expression meaning to get totally and utterly drunk. may also be used to refer to getting stoned, normally with weed but also other drugs. you were acting really weird, did you get drunk last night at the party? – drunk?!? i got reupholstered!!!
- Revamptation
the process of figuring life and redefining the concept of yourself as you move forward in it. i’m constantly going through the process of revamptation because i’m always trying to figure out what’s going on around me.