STRETCH-OUT

noun Date: 1930 a system of industrial operation in which workers are required to do extra work with slight or with no additional pay, the act of stretching out ; the state of being stretched out, an economizing measure that spreads a limited quantity over a larger field than originally intended: as, a slackening of production schedules so that a quantity of goods will be produced over a longer period than initially planned, a restructuring of a loan repayment schedule over an extended period of time