Meaning & use
duplicative
Repeating or copying something that already exists, often in a way that is unnecessary or wasteful.
See it in a sentence
The audit found several duplicative programs that served the exact same families.
Merging the two databases finally removed all of the duplicative customer records.
A note on using this word
Duplicative is common in business and legal writing to describe wasteful overlap, rather than simple repetition in everyday speech.
Words with a similar meaning
redundantrepetitive
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Words with an opposite meaning
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