0 the practice of protecting someone, especially a group of workers, too much and making things easy for them:
The company is famous for featherbedding former employees, long after they have gone into retirement.
She criticized the practice of featherbedding MPs with allowances and fantastic pensions.
The taxpayer was forced to fund the featherbedding of a privatized rail company.
Full employment was achieved through rampant featherbedding.
Today's front page story covers the featherbedding that seems to be a feature of almost all city departments.
One publicist says there is a lot of featherbedding in the shows.
