Question

The word ‘redundancy’ has been used in two different sense in the following sentences

(i) Thousands of factory workers are facing redundancy.

(ii) Natural language is characterized by ‘redundancy’.
Now differentiate between layoff and redundancy as used in (i) and ‘verbosity’ and ‘redundancy’ as used in (ii) Confirm your answer from the Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary.

(उपर्युक्त वाक्यों में ‘redundancy’ शब्द को दो भिन्न अर्थों में प्रयोग किया गया है। वाक्य 

(i) में इसे ‘छटनी’ के अर्थ में तथा वाक्य 

(ii) में इसे शब्द ‘बाहुल्य’ के अर्थ में प्रयोग किया गया है। दोनों में भेद बताइए। अपने उत्तर की पुष्टि Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary से कीजिए।)

Answer 1

The word ‘redundancy’ as used in sentence, 

(i) has the meaning-superfluous, not needed.

Example : The industry is facing the problem of redundancy. (The problem of unneeded or superfluous labour). The word ‘redundancy’ in sentence

(ii) has the meaning ‘use of words which repeat the sense and, therefore, not needed’.

Example : The money he earned was adequate enough. Here the word enough’ is redundant as it has the same meaning as ‘adequate’. Hence, there is redundancy.

[वाक्य (i) में शब्द redundancy का अर्थ है, आवश्यकता से अधिक, अनावश्यक। वाक्य 

(ii) में इसका अर्थ है, ऐसे शब्दों का प्रयोग जो अर्थ को दोहराते हों और इस कारण अनावश्यक हों।]