stretch-out

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stretch-out

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Deverbal from stretch out.

noun stretch-outs · stretchout

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 not
Similar: speedup · Opposite: go-slow, slowdown, work-to-rule
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.

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@misc{stretch_out_2026,
  title = {stretch-out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stretch-out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}