Featherbedding

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:25 ptsWWF:27 pts14 letters

Definition of Featherbedding

noun

The hiring of more workers than necessary or the limiting of worker productivity in order to allow employment of more persons, usually as a result of a union contract with an employer.
The paying for services that are not actually performed, as in a union-imposed fee upon an employer.
The employment of more workers than is necessary because of union rules, especially upon the introduction of new technology
the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required

verb

Present participle of featherbed.

Anagrams of Featherbedding

Words You Can Make

50 words can be made from the letters in "featherbedding":

11-LETTER WORDS

10-LETTER WORDS

befingered befriended bighearted bridgehead brightened debearding denigrated featherbed feathering federating freehanded frightened hibernated inbreathed ingathered

9-LETTER WORDS

bartended bedighted befringed beheading benefited benefiter benighted bigheaded breathing debriefed defeating denigrate deraigned detrained engrafted+19 more

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "featherbedding" and rearranging:

+sfeatherbeddings

Related Word Patterns

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Rhyming Words

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