搜尋結果
feather bed
- IPA[ˈfɛðəbɛd]
英式
- a bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
- provide (someone) with excessively favourable economic or working conditions；deliberately limit production or retain excess staff in (a business) in order to create jobs or prevent unemployment, typically as a result of a union contract
verb: feather-bed, 3rd person present: feather-beds, gerund or present participle: feather-bedding, past tense: feather-bedded, past participle: feather-bedded
noun: feather bed, plural noun: feather beds
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
動詞
- 1. 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
- ▪ deliberately limit production or retain excess staff in (a business) in order to create jobs or prevent unemployment, typically as a result of a union contract the high pollution industries are to be feather-bedded under the scheme
