featherbedding

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A noun referring to the practice, typically by a labor union, of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are actually needed for a job.

• 🇩🇪Praktik, meist von Gewerkschaften, Arbeitgeber zur Einstellung von mehr Arbeitskräften zu zwingen, als für die Arbeit tatsächlich nötig sind.

1. Excessive hiring practice C2 formal

   The practice, often by labor unions, of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are actually needed for a job.

   • The union was accused of featherbedding by insisting on three stagehands for a simple setup.
   • Featherbedding can lead to inefficiency and higher costs for companies.
   • The contract included a clause that critics called featherbedding.

   🇩🇪Überbesetzung

   Synonyme: make-work

• featherbeddings plural form
• featherbeddings' possessive plural form
• featherbedding's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to provide someone with excessively comfortable or favorable conditions, often in a workplace or political context, or to pamper.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das bedeutet, jemandem übermäßig komfortable oder günstige Bedingungen zu schaffen, oft im beruflichen oder politischen Kontext, oder jemanden zu verwöhnen.

1. Treat with excessive indulgence C1 informal british

   To pamper or coddle someone, providing them with more comfort or luxury than necessary.

   • The hotel staff featherbedded the VIP guests with extra pillows and champagne.
   • Parents sometimes featherbed their children, making them unprepared for real life.
   • He was featherbedded by his assistants, who did all the difficult work for him.

   🇩🇪Verwöhnen

   Synonyme: babycoddlecossetindulgemollycoddlepamperspoil

   Antonyme: abusedisciplinehardenignoremistreatneglecttoughen

2. Hire more workers than necessary C1 formal british

   To employ an excessive number of workers, often due to union agreements or to avoid layoffs, resulting in inefficiency.

   • The factory was featherbedded, with three workers doing a job that one could handle.
   • The union insisted on featherbedding, requiring extra staff on every shift.
   • The company's featherbedding practices led to high operational costs.

   🇩🇪Überbesetzung einstellen

• featherbedded past participle
• featherbedded past simple
• featherbedding present participle
• featherbeds third person singular