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Night shift   /naɪt ʃɪft/   Listen
Night shift

noun
1.
The work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.).  Synonym: graveyard shift.
2.
Workers who work during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.).  Synonym: graveyard shift.






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"Night shift" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mountain region from the Northwest. A mile of excavation yet remained to do. Lee at once sent Saurez and other Mexicans abroad in the native settlements with offers of double wages and this drew the most indolent back to camp again. They were flung into the night shift, which toiled with increased vigour at news of the impending storm. For two days and nights the desperate effort was pushed while the sky continued clear, with the crews of both camps attacking the iron earth and ...
— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd

... could never hope to grasp. I said it was like the sound of the sea beating against the granite cliffs of the Ionian Esophagus: or words to that effect. As for the truth of it, I might as well have said that it was like the sound of a rum distillery running a night shift on half time. At any rate this is what I said about Homer, and when I spoke of Pindar,—the dainty grace of his strophes,—and Aristophanes, the delicious sallies of his wit, sally after sally, each sally explained in a ...
— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock



Words linked to "Night shift" :   work shift, duty period, shift



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