'featherbedding' definitions:
Definition of 'featherbedding'
(from WordNet)
noun
The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
Synonyms of 'featherbedding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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