[strech-out] 
| 1. | a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota. |
| 2. | a method of labor management by which employees do additional work without a commensurate increase in wages. |
[strech] | 1. | to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often fol. by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground. |
| 2. | to hold out, reach forth, or extend (one's arm, head, etc.). |
| 3. | to extend, spread, or place (something) so as to reach from one point or place to another: to stretch a rope across a road. |
| 4. | to draw tight or taut: to stretch the strings of a violin. |
| 5. | to lengthen, widen, distend, or enlarge by tension: to stretch a rubber band. |
| 6. | to draw out, extend, or enlarge unduly: The jacket was stretched at the elbows. |
| 7. | to extend, force, or make serve beyond the normal or proper limits; strain: to stretch the imagination; to stretch the facts; to stretch food to feed extra guests; to stretch money to keep within a budget. |
| 8. | to extend or strain (oneself) to the utmost, as by intense exertion; tax. |
| 9. | to increase the quantity of (a beverage, food, paint, etc.) by dilution or admixing: They caught the bartender stretching the gin with water. |
| 10. | Radio and Television. to prolong or slow down (action or pace) in order not to end too early: to stretch a show; to stretch the action two minutes. |
| 11. | to recline at full length (usually fol. by out): to stretch out on a couch. |
| 12. | to extend the hand or to reach, as for something. |
| 13. | to extend over a distance or area or in a particular direction: The forest stretches for miles. |
| 14. | to extend in time: His memory stretches back to his early childhood. |
| 15. | to stretch oneself by extending the limbs and lengthening the muscles to the utmost: to stretch and yawn. |
| 16. | to become stretched, or admit of being stretched, to greater length, width, etc., as any elastic or ductile material. |
| 17. | Radio and Television. to reduce the pace or slow down the action of a radio or television program. |
| 18. | an act or instance of stretching. |
| 19. | the state of being stretched. |
| 20. | a continuous length, distance, tract, or expanse: a stretch of meadow. |
| 21. | Horse Racing. the backstretch or homestretch of a racetrack. |
| 22. | Baseball. a short windup, usually used to keep base runners from taking too long a lead, in which the pitcher starts the pitching motion with hands together at the waist, raises them to or above the head, brings them back to the waist, and, after a momentary pause, delivers the ball. |
| 23. | an extent in time; duration: for a stretch of ten years. |
| 24. | elasticity or capacity for extension. |
| 25. | Slang. a term of imprisonment: He's doing a stretch in the pen. |
| 26. | the act or fact of stretching or extending something beyond reasonable or proper limits: You wouldn't call her a genius by any stretch of the imagination. It's quite a stretch for me to believe his story. |
| 27. | (initial capital letter) a nickname for a tall, lanky person. |
| 28. | made of synthetic or composite yarn having a sufficiently low denier or having been subjected to any of several special mechanical treatments to permit increased elasticity: stretch girdle; stretch pants. |
| 29. | (of yarn) modified or twisted so as to afford high elasticity. |
| 30. | Also, stretched. of or pertaining to a conveyance, as a limousine or airliner, whose seating area is expanded to carry more passengers or afford greater legroom and to allow space for other comforts and amenities. |
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