Search Result for "featherbedding": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required;


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

featherbedding n 1: the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
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