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What does feather-bedding mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word feather-bedding? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. present participle of feather-bed
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They see political entitlements with too many rorts and too much feather-bedding.
George Osborne's weekend gift of a 5p cut in the top income tax rate is the ConDem scoundrels feather-bedding the overclass.
Personally, I think it would be an outrage to spend such huge amounts of Welsh public money on feather-bedding the training academy project.
Of course the council tax is unpopular because free-spending local authorities relentlessly force it up with extravagance, feather-bedding of employees and empire-building.

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