stretch-out
See also: stretch out and stretchout
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Deverbal from stretch out.
Noun
[edit]stretch-out (plural stretch-outs)
- 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.
- Synonym: speedup
- Antonyms: go-slow, slowdown, work-to-rule
- 1934 August 22, “Ways to Avert Textile Strike Come to Front”, in Chattanooga Daily Times, volume 65, number 249, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 2:
- 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. […] ”
- A stretch limousine.
- 2004, Robert C. Allen, Creating Hawai'i Tourism: A Memoir, page 118:
- 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.
Further reading
[edit]- “stretch-out”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “stretch-out”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.