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.
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The crowd is pure New York: cab drivers, college kids, night shift workers.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
Rauch starred as Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the late Judge Harry Stone (played by Harry Anderson), who oversaw the night shift at Manhattan's Criminal Court.
—EW.com, 19 June 2025
Going back again and again to that panicked night shift when the bleeding patient died under my hands was an unexpected salve for the unforgiving finality of the actual events.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
The panel proposed other incentives including possibly providing childcare for night shift employees.
—Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
Rauch starred as Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the late Judge Harry Stone (played by Harry Anderson), who oversaw the night shift at Manhattan's Criminal Court.
—EW.com, 19 June 2025
Going back again and again to that panicked night shift when the bleeding patient died under my hands was an unexpected salve for the unforgiving finality of the actual events.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
The panel proposed other incentives including possibly providing childcare for night shift employees.
—Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for night shift
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“Night shift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/night%20shift. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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