featherbedding
noun
1 featherbedding
The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required.
Roget 681: inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect etc. 460. inactivity etc. 683; ... show more
Moby thesaurus: bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, luxury, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm ... show more.
featherbed
noun
1 featherbed
A mattress stuffed with feathers.
synonym: feather bed.
Roget 681: inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect etc. 460. inactivity etc. 683; ... show more
verb
1 featherbed
Treat with excessive indulgence.
synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil.
Dutch: vertroetelen, verwennen
2 featherbed
Hire more workers than are necessary.
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