From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a mattress stuffed with feathers [syn: {feather bed}]
verb
1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: {pamper}, {cosset}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle}, {mollycoddle}, {spoil}, {indulge}]
2: hire more workers than are necessary [also: {featherbedding}, {featherbedded}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
featherbedding See {featherbed}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "featherbedding": bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, luxury, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, unnecessariness, verbosity
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