| 单词 | featherbedding |
| 释义 | featherbedding[ feth-er-bed-ing ] / ˈfɛð ərˌbɛd ɪŋ / nounthe practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives. Origin of featherbeddingFirst recorded in 1920–25; feather + bedding Words nearby featherbeddingfeat, feather, featherback, feather banding, featherbed, featherbedding, featherbone, featherbrain, feathercut, feather duster, feather-duster worm Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for featherbeddingfeatherbedding / (ˈfɛðəˌbɛdɪŋ) / nounthe practice of limiting production, duplicating work, or overmanning, esp in accordance with a union contract, in order to prevent redundancies or create jobs Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for featherbeddingfeatherbedding The practice of forcing an employer to hire more workers than are needed for a job. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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