duplicative
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈduːplɪˌkeɪtɪv/
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duplicativo
- Many of the reports submitted were duplicative, wasting both time and resources.
- duplicative and wasteful
- unnecessary and duplicative
- duplicative efforts
Examples
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The company decided to eliminate duplicative tasks to improve efficiency.
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Leganto also includes features to ensure copyright compliance and to minimize duplicative purchases or licensing of resources.
Academic text (2018) -
There is some question as to whether the project is duplicative of existing services.
Blog text (18) -
Some of the email addresses were duplicative or no longer used.
Academic text (2011) -
All it would take to fix this is to combine or eliminate many duplicative government programs.
Blog text (12) -
An important goal of future investigation will be to determine which obstacles, if any, are duplicative and, therefore, unnecessary.
Academic text (1996) -
An extensive CERD process in this area could be duplicative of other work at the UN and should be avoided.
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Protecting farmers and ranchers from costly and duplicative regulations that cost jobs:
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The overall purpose of the new rule was to "streamline the reporting process for DoD contractors and minimize duplicative reporting."
Academic text (2017) -
In large part, Congress passed FACA to cut down on wasteful and duplicative advisory committees and to open advisory committee operations to public scrutiny.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
58
3.5
Doing the same thing again and again
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5.1
More than needed and not useful because it repeats something
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5.1
Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way
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7.4
Using the same words or idea again and again
Antonyms
How Redundant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Duplicative comes from a root meaning 'double'. It is related to the common word duplicate and the part dupli-, which mean 'double', so a duplicative thing is a repeated or extra copy and is often unnecessary.