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