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Define the word featherbedding

"featherbedding" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

featherbed
     n : a mattress stuffed with feathers [syn: feather bed]
     v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
          the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
          [syn: pamper, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle,
           spoil, indulge]
     2: hire more workers than are necessary
     [also: featherbedding, featherbedded]

"featherbedding" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

featherbedding
     n : the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an
         employer to hire more workers than are required

"featherbedding" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

featherbedding
     See featherbed

"featherbedding" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "featherbedding":
   bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment,
   expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery,
   gingerbread, luxury, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment,
   overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance,
   redundancy, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology,
   unnecessariness, verbosity