单词 | feather bed |
释义 | feather bed in British Englishnoun 1. a mattress filled with feathers or down verb featherbedWord forms: -beds, -bedding or -bedded 2. (transitive) to pamper; spoil 3. (intransitive) US to be subject to or engage in featherbedding feather-bed in British English (ˈfɛðəˌbɛd) verb 1. (transitive) British to pamper; spoil 2. (intransitive) US business to limit production, duplicate work, or overman, esp in accordance with a union contract, in order to prevent redundancies or create jobs feather bed in American English a strong cloth container thickly filled with feathers or down, used as a mattress Examples of 'feather bed' in a sentence |
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