duplicative
pronunciation
How to pronounce duplicative in British English:
UK [d'ju:plɪkətɪv]
How to pronounce duplicative in American English:
US [d'juplɪkətɪv]
Word Origin
- duplicative (adj.)
- 1870; see duplicate (v.) + -ive.
Example
- 1. An administrator may start to enter an order but then see immediately that a salesperson already did-eliminating duplicative efforts .
- 2. Scientists offer a few theories as to why duplicative results may be so elusive .
- 3. " I think the more important step should be to restrain the handsets with the duplicative codes in the network , but this is often complicated and hard to do , " he said .
- 4. For too long , the federal government allowed the american people 's hard-earned tax dollars to fund ineffective and duplicative projects , failing to leverage advances in technology to achieve savings .
- 5. Livingston said the software also has increased office efficiency and cut costs by eliminating time-consuming practices and duplicative testing .