Usually means: Unnecessary jobs to protect employment.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word featherbedding:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. featherbedding: Merriam-Webster
  2. featherbedding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. featherbedding: Collins English Dictionary
  4. featherbedding: Vocabulary.com
  5. Featherbedding, featherbedding: Wordnik
  6. featherbedding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. featherbedding: Wiktionary
  8. featherbedding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. featherbedding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. featherbedding: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. featherbedding: Dictionary.com
  12. Featherbedding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. featherbedding: Rhymezone
  14. featherbedding: FreeDictionary.org
  15. featherbedding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. featherbedding: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. featherbedding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. featherbedding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Featherbedding: Investopedia
  4. Featherbedding: Financial dictionary
  5. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. featherbedding: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. featherbedding: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (featherbedding)

noun:  (US) The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a government, etc), especially upon the introduction of new technology.

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