stretch-out

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A practice of industrial operation, especially in the textile industry, by which workers are required to do additional work without a proportional increase in wages.
    — The strike committee's statement today […] said the “stretchout system has become a scourge and the principal weapon used by the employers to beat the workers into subjection[.]” […] Of the stretch-out, the committee declared: / “We are sick and tired of listening to people tell us that there is nothing we can do about the stretch-out. […]”
  2. A stretch limousine.
    — As time progressed, the Gray Line increased its limo fleet, converted the stretchouts into passenger vehicles (later widely emulated), and brought the first sightseeing buses to the Islands.

词形变化

stretch-outs plural stretchout alternative

词源

Deverbal from stretch out.
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