NOUN
- workers who work during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.)
- the work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.)
How To Use night shift In A Sentence
- It was settled when incoming workers agreed to work permanent night shifts.
- Sources say that in city divisions such as Howdenhall, which covers a large part of south Edinburgh, there can be as few as four beat officers available on day and night shifts.
- Tim willingly takes the night shift, but it takes a toll on his relationship with live-in girlfriend, Trish.
- I believe usual practise is to assume that if you got a nice early slide this time because of BST, you might get a kick in the rear end later in the year from the return to GMT; your twelve hour night shift magically morphing into a 13hr slog. Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- The night shift has / have just come off duty.
- Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales. NYT > Home Page
- By this time, he said, a night shift was in operation and it was difficult to conform to the conditions in the timescale allowed.
- Since it is the night shift and business is usually slow during those hours, you will be working alone.
- For a moment I wondered if he secretly worked night shift as a watchman.
- The night shift come / comes off at dawn.
