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swing shift

noun

  1. a work shift in industry from midafternoon until midnight.
  2. the group of workers on such a shift.


swing shift

noun

  1. a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
  2. the period worked
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • swing shifter noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of swing shift1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

I was cut from that… and I was cut from Swing Shift, the Jonathan Demme film with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

They were waiting up for the father—he's on the swing shift—and the kid wanted ice cream.

Swing-shift employes, arriving at the factory for work, crowded past the two girls.

Riuku was glad too, the next afternoon when the swing shift started pouring through the gates.

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