FEATHERBEDDING

Meaning of FEATHERBEDDING in English

noun Date: 1921 the requiring of an employer usually under a union rule or safety statute to hire more employees than are needed or to limit production

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FEATHERBEDDING — Featherbedding provisions in labour contracts may result from the continuation of work rules that were once efficient but that have …
Английский словарь Британика
FEATHERBEDDING — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: from gerund of featherbed (II) : the requiring of an employer usually under a union rule or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FEATHERBEDDING — /fedh"euhr bed'ing/ , n. the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEATHERBEDDING — n. spoiling, indulgence; act of compelling an employer to hire more workers than are needed
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FEATHERBEDDING — noun Date: 1921 : the requiring of an employer usually under a union rule or safety statute to hire more …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FEATHERBEDDING — [feath.er.bed.ding] n (1921): the requiring of an employer usu. under a union rule or safety statute to hire more employees …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FEATHERBEDDING — labour union practices that require the employer to pay for the performance of what he considers to be unnecessary work …
Britannica English vocabulary
FEATHERBEDDING — [noun] [U]The featherbedding of inefficient companies will lead to disaster.
Cambridge English vocab
FEATHERBEDDING — n. Labour union practices that require the employer to pay for the performance of unnecessary work or to employ workers …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FEATHERBEDDING — Synonyms and related words : bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, luxury, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FEATHERBEDDING — сущ. практика сохранения численности рабочей силы независимо от потребности в ней Featherbedding featherbedding искусственное раздувание штатов ~ сохранение численности рабочей …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FEATHERBEDDING — (n) тактика фезербединг
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
FEATHERBEDDING — сущ. практика сохранения численности рабочей силы независимо от потребности в ней
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
FEATHERBEDDING — фезербединг, "лёгкая жизнь" на предприятии ( 1) тактика, согласно которой предприниматели сохраняют численность наличной рабочей силы независимо от потребности в …
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
FEATHERBEDDING — искусственное раздувание штатов Тактика, широко применяемая при заключении коллективных договоров; предусматривает прием на работу излишней рабочей силы и отказ от использования …
FEATHERBEDDING — искусственное раздувание штатов Тактика, широко применяемая при заключении коллективных договоров; предусматривает прием на работу излишней рабочей силы и отказ от …
FEATHERBEDDING — сущ. эк. тр., амер. искусственное раздувание штатов (тактика, применяемая при заключении коллективных договоров c целью увеличения количества работников и отказ от …
Новый англо-русский толковый словарь по менеджменту и экономике труда
FEATHERBEDDING — сущ. практика сохранения численности рабочей силы независимо от потребности в ней Featherbedding featherbedding искусственное раздувание штатов ~ сохранение численности рабочей …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
FEATHERBEDDING — n. Pronunciation: - ˌ be-di ŋ Function: noun Date: 1921 : the requiring of an employer usually under a union …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FEATHERBED — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : calling for, requiring, or sanctioning featherbedding a featherbed rule : created by or resulting from featherbedding …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TAFT-HARTLEY ACT — /taft"hahrt"lee/ an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEATHERBED — /fedh"euhr bed'/ , v.t., v.i., featherbedded, featherbedding . to subject to or engage in featherbedding. [ 1945-50; back formation from …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEATHERBED — I. ˈfe-thər-ˌbed adjective Date: 1938 : calling for, sanctioning, or resulting from featherbedding a featherbed rule a featherbed job II. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FEATHERBED — [feath.er.bed] adj (1938): calling for, sanctioning, or resulting from featherbedding [2]featherbed vi (1949) 1 a: to require that more workers …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SLOVENIA, FLAG OF — horizontally striped white-blue-red national flag with a coat of arms in the upper hoist corner. The flag's width-to-length ratio is …
Britannica English vocabulary
DISCUSS — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be discussed/described in chapter 1/2/3 etc ▪ These points will be discussed in chapter 8. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DEEPLY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AROUSE — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES arouse a feeling (= cause it ) ▪ The music aroused a feeling of calm …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
VERBOSITY — Synonyms and related words : bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TAUTOLOGY — Synonyms and related words : abundance, amplitude, battology, bedizenment, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SUPERFLUITY — Synonyms and related words : abundance, acres, amenity, amplitude, bags, barrels, bedizenment, bravery, bushel, chiffon, clinquant, cloud of words, copiousness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
REDUNDANCY — Synonyms and related words : EDP, abundance, amplitude, avalanche, battology, bedizenment, bit, channel, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, communication …
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