1. unclaimed
The unclaimed items were sold off at auction.
Thousands of dollars in scholarships go unclaimed each year.
Drew constantly checks government listings of unclaimed property.
An unclaimed child and his dog sit by the railroad tracks.
Do you see all those skeletons strewn around? Don't you think this fortune is unclaimed for a reason?
2. irrelevant
This is competely irrelevant.
We’re focussing too much on irrelevant details.
Your remark is irrelevant to our argument.
In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.
My grandfather, being hard of hearing, often makes an irrelevant answer.
The documents are largely irrelevant to the present investigation
irrelevant information - nieistotna informacja
If you do the job well, your age is irrelevant
The car had faults but there were irrelevant to the crash
Gary said something that was irrelevant to the topic we were discussing at that time.
Hankerson said whatever Taylor did “in his life before, this is irrelevant to us.” / Do you desire to live in a future in which the machines have won, making professional writers irrelevant?
Code elements that make sense in one part of the system may seem completely irrelevant in another.
Talent becomes irrelevant when you achieve 10,000 hours.
We can eliminate C and D since they are irrelevant to the generation of the arcs.
3. needless
We need to put a stop to the needless suffering and misuse of animals by the tourist industry.
What did they add this needless function for?
You're wasting your time with all this needless repetition so spare us the long-winded explanation.
It is needless to say that an experienced person will do better than someone without experience.
Needless to say, because of the accident, he will stay away from school for a while.
Air as well as sunlight is, needless to say, indispensable to our daily life.
Needless to say, fundamental human rights should be respected.
needless to say
Needless to say, diligence is a key to happiness.
Needless to say, I've come here to help you.
Needless to say he is one of the best writers of the present generation.
Omit needless words!
Needless to say, Norway has become the world's second largest oil supplier.
to avoid needless duplication
When we rush to complete our work, we make needless errors.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. position preferred but not essential