Definition of "featherbedded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed. (verb)

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• "Nor that so many New Labour ministers moved effortlessly from government to work for the same companies their own privatisation efforts had so lavishly featherbedded."
• "Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set."
• "It's also clear that those of us who continued to live the old-fashioned way are to be punished by the majority for our quaint adherence to that creed -- while the feckless, the dim, the improvident and the greedy are featherbedded until the rest of us run out of money."