(US) The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a government, etc), especially upon the introduction of new technology.
verb
present participle of featherbed
featherbrained
featherbrained
adj
Alternative spelling of feather-brained
fibrochondroma
filibranchiate
hydrofluoboric
infrabranchial
infrabranchial
adj
(zoology) Below the gills; applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.