Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

zbędny in English:

1. redundant


The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
Teenage discontentment is redundant.
My teacher told me my essay was full of redundant words.
Exceeding what is needed, superfluous; unnecessary to the sense, as words. I'll be busy the rest of the day, Martha. The boss wants me to take one of his redundant letters!
redundant workers
The redundant workers were angry to see robots doing their old work
One day, I think cars will become redundant and we'll fly everywhere.
After I came back to work after being sick I found out my position was made redundant and I had no job.
This one word was redundant in his speech.
In the sentence "She is a single unmarried woman", the word "unmarried" is redundant.
zostać zwolnionym - to made redundant / She was made redundant from the company after eight years. Eight thousand people have been made redundant in Britain this year.
If someone is redundant, they have been told they must leave their job because they are no longer needed. Computers have made our paper records redundant.
it is redundant effort adding no value to the product.
For many people the TV is becoming redundant and the computer screen is becoming the main source for viewing TV, DVDs etc. / Staff are being made redundant and the remaining staff are left to take on larger numbers of projects.
Old copies of a textbook soon become redundant when a new edition comes out.

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2. superfluous


There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.
She gave him a look that made words superfluous.
Further discussion seemed superfluous
a modern building with no superfluous decoration
superfluous hair(s)
Samantha had already won the campaign so her constant flattery of others was superfluous
The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail
note that ellipses are used to hide superfluous information
The real, biological nervous system is highly complex and includes some features that may seem superfluous based on an understanding of artificial networks.
Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.

English word "zbędny"(superfluous) occurs in sets:

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3. excess


Working to excess will do you harm.
The load of the truck was in excess of three tons.
He drinks to excess.
Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.
He tends to do everything to excess.
Don't eat to excess.
Exercise, if carried to excess, will do you more harm than good.
Never spend in excess of your income.
In this season we often suffer from an excess of rain.
In charity there is no excess.
Kindness in excess is too much of a good thing.
Tomatoes are good for people who suffer stomach pain from excess stomach acid when their stomach is empty.
How much per kilo for excess?
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
She praised her husband to excess.

English word "zbędny"(excess) occurs in sets:

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4. obsolete


Technology becomes obsolete the older it gets.
make sth obsolete
As a programmer I can't use any obsolete technologies.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
The obsolete regime is about to collapse.
Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.
components, which are become to be obsolete
In fact, each version should make the previous one appear obsolete.
to be rendered obsolete
Obsolete equipment. Will books become obsolete because of computers?
My phone is not worse than the other but a little obsolete
In the process, a few things that once were considered social mainstays are now either obsolete or well on their way.
Do you think it will be obsolete in 10 years' time?
Our computer system will soon be obsolete.
ASCII quotes are a substitute character for the “real” quotes that vary from language to language, and the advent of Unicode have rendered ASCII quotes obsolete.

5. expendable


Much becomes expendable.
Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable. 2. During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.

English word "zbędny"(expendable) occurs in sets:

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