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Definition: Featherbedding |
FeatherbeddingNoun1. The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inaction | Inactivity; rest; (repose); quiescence; want of occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente; sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job; soft snap, soft thing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
featherbedding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "featherbedding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | freinage, suremploi, limitation du rendement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verpäppelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatherbeddingfay การจั"ให้มีคนมากเกินความจำเป็น. (various references) sendikalarca çalışanların korunması. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "featherbedding": featherbeddings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "featherbedding" (pronounced fe"therbe'ding) |
| 4 | -e' d i ng | spearheading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-e-f-g-h-i-n-r-t" | |
-3 letters: redefeating. | |
-4 letters: befingered, befriended, bighearted, bridgehead, brightened, denigrated, featherbed, feathering, federating, freehanded, frightened, hibernated, inbreathed, ingathered. | |
-5 letters: bartended, bedighted, befringed, beheading, benefited, benefiter, benighted, bigheaded, breathing, debriefed, defeating, denigrate, deraigned, detrained, engrafted, fathering, feathered, federated, freighted, gaberdine, generated, gratineed, greatened, greenhead, hagridden, heartened, herniated, hibernate, inbreathe, inearthed, ingrafted, redbaited, redefined, refeeding, reheating, renegaded. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-e-f-g-h-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: featherbeddings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 74 68 65 72 62 65 64 64 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- - .... . .-. -... . -.. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100010 01100101 01100100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a t h e r b e d d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072 0062 0065 0064 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071678674718468717070758073 |
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