Meaning & use
otiose
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serving no useful purpose; functionless or futile.
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Once the merger was finalized, the old approval process became otiose.
Critics called the extra clause otiose, since it repeated what an earlier paragraph already said.
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A formal, somewhat literary word, most often found in academic or legal writing to describe something no longer needed.
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