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.

• 🇪🇸Práctica, generalmente por parte de un sindicato, que exige al empleador contratar más trabajadores de los estrictamente necesarios para realizar un trabajo, a menudo para mantener o aumentar el empleo.

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.

   🇪🇸Sobredotación de personal

   Sinónimos: 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.

• 🇪🇸Verbo que significa proporcionar a alguien condiciones excesivamente cómodas o favorables, a menudo en un contexto laboral o político, o mimar en exceso.

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.

   🇪🇸Mimar en exceso

   Sinónimos: babycoddlecossetindulgemollycoddlepamperspoil

   Antónimos: 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.

   🇪🇸Sobredotar de personal

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