1. (Travail) Rupture du contrat de travail à l'initiative de l'employeur, pour un motif non inhérent à la personne du salarié.
2. [noun] The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
3. [noun] Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
4. [noun] Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
5. [noun] (chiefly UK) (Australia) (New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
6. [noun] (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
7. [noun] Repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission.
8. [noun] The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; 'the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers'.
9. [noun] (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails.
10. [noun] Repetition of an act needlessly.
