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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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. […]”
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.
Use stretch-out when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stretch-out means 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..
Common synonyms include speedup.
Possible antonyms include go-slow, slowdown, work-to-rule.
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. […]”
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