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Noun featherbed has 1 sense
- feather bed, featherbed - a mattress stuffed with feathers
--1 is a kind of mattress
Verb featherbed has 2 senses
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
--1 is one way to treat, handle, do by
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- featherbed - hire more workers than are necessary
--2 is one way to hire, engage, employ
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
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