night shift

noun

: 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.

: 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 Some workers made $14 an hour As a test associate working the night shift, Bussabarger made $15 an hour. —

Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2024 Deanna Warner, a night shift press operator, started in 2003. —

Vincent Alban, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2024 His first job was building fireproof safes on the night shift. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 15 June 2024 As the news developed over the course of that day, her thought crystallized into fact: six construction workers who were filling potholes during a night shift on the bridge have been presumed dead since Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday, divers found the bodies of two of those men. —

Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for night shift

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