1. A system of industrial operation in which workers are required to do extra work with slight or with no additional pay
2. The act of stretching out; the state of being stretched out
3. An economizing measure that spreads a limited quantity over a larger field than originally intended: as; a slackening of production schedules so that a quantity of goods will be produced over a longer period than initially planned; a restructuring of a loan repayment schedule over an extended period of time

To extend out and forward, as of a limb; SYN. put out, extend, hold out, stretch forth.