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ˈstretch-out Chiefly N. Amer.
Also unhyphened.
[f. stretch v. + out adv.]
1. A practice of requiring workers, esp. in textile industries, to do extra work or operate extra machines for little or no additional pay.
1933Sun (Baltimore) 30 June 12/1 The ‘stretch-out’ is a scheme for getting more work done in the textile mills with less labor. 1933E. Caldwell God's Little Acre v. 84 The mill can't get us back unless they shorten the hours, or cut out the stretchout, or go back to the old pay. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 17 Aug. 1/3 Wage increases, shorter hours, differentials in the higher wage brackets, and an end to the ‘stretch-out’ are objectives to be sought in the strike. 1943Ibid. 14 June 10/7 A managerial stretch-out which prostrates war workers is intolerable.
2. A practice of slackening production schedules as an economy, so that a set quantity will be produced over a longer period; a postponement of the date of fulfilment of orders or contracts, etc.
1946[see sense 3 below]. 1952N.Y. Times 16 Aug. (Late city ed.) 14/1 The North Atlantic defense program, already handicapped by a ‘stretch-out’. 1959Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Jan. (Eastern ed.) 2/4 The stretchout is understood to apply to the date at which the two aircraft were to go into flight and become ‘operational’. 1960Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. xiii/3 Stretch-out of deliveries has been broadly accepted by the industry. 1969Look 29 Apr. 57/3 Support on the part of so many in the diocese made this patient waiting over weeks of time much easier. But the long stretch-out freed us. 1979Aviation Week & Space Technol. 13 Aug. 9 Neither the abandonment of the B-1 by the current Administration nor its stretchout of the MX missile..speeded up SALT.
3. attrib.
1934Sun (Baltimore) 1 Sept. 2/4 It has failed to do anything about solving the ‘stretch-out’ problem. 1946Ibid. 10 May 15/3 A ‘stretch-out’ plan, under which those employed will work less hours weekly, will be adopted soon. 1960Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. xiii/2 The viability of a satisfactory stretch-out arrangement depends on the transfer of contracts from the weaker to the stronger mining operations. 1967Canad. Ann. Rev. 1966 75 The Prime Minister announced a major increase in the amounts allocated to vocational and technical training in the stretch-out period. |