featherbedding
Meaning of featherbedding
verb, gerund or present participle
- provide (someone) with excessively favourable economic or working conditions.
apart from the fees he earns, a practising barrister is not feather-bedded in any way
MPs using their office allowance to employ partners as assistants are seen as further evidence of feather-bedding
Information about featherbedding
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of featherbedding is: featherbeddings.
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Hyphenation of featherbedding
feath-erbed-ding
- It consists of 3 syllables and 14 chars.
- featherbedding is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with featherbedding
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