Meaning of FEATHERBEDDING

Pronunciation:			'fedhur`beding
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
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	See Also:		pattern, practice
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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