night shift

noun

1

: a period of time during the night (such as from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.) in which a person is scheduled to work

He works the night shift and sleeps during the day.

2

: a group of people who work during the night shift

The night shift is starting to arrive.

Examples of night shift in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When a new colleague arrived who had a child with autism, Zoellers offered to work the night shift so his colleague could be there for his child during the day as the family adjusted to a new place. —Miami Herald, 11 May 2026

The male typically takes over incubation duties in the day and the female takes the night shift, so both birds are needed to have a successful hatching. —Joan Morris, Mercury News, 4 May 2026

This happened to me on a recent night shift. —Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026

Maybe there’s a late-breaking nighttime emergency and the day shift has to stay on, instead of a daytime emergency where the night shift has to show up early. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for night shift

• adrift
• airlift
• facelift
• festschrift
• forklift
• gearshift
• makeshift
• redshift
• sealift
• snowdrift
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