Meaning of stretch-out | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A stretch limousine.

Examples

“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. […]””

“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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