Stretch-out

Alternative forms

• stretchout, {{3}}

Origin

From the verb phrase stretch out.

Full definition of stretch-out

Noun

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.
• 1934-08-22, Ways to Avert Textile Strike Come to Front, 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.

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