featherbedding

1. Featherbedding will certainly increase unit costs and, in the general case, prices too.
   一般情况下，超额雇工肯定将增加单位成本，并将提高价格。
2. In all this Mr Castro is bowing to reality. He has been withering in his criticism of the featherbedding that has bankrupted the state. He has also refused to blame the American economic embargo for problems which he rightly says are self-inflicted.
   卡斯特罗在这些方面都屈从于现实：他对于导致国家破产的额外雇工进行了极尖刻的批判；同时也拒绝对美国采取贸易禁运所造成的问题进行批判，他认为这些问题都是自寻烦恼。

noun

1. the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required