Night Shift

Definition: Night Shift

Night Shift

Noun

1. The work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.).

2. Workers who work during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Labor

Law

Mining

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Synonym: Night Shift

Crosswords: Night Shift

Leon, somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence headquarters (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Night Shift (1956)

The Night Shift (1995)

Night Shift Latex Slaves (1991)

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Books

• God Works the Night Shift (reference)

• Night Shift Daddy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Night Shift (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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B-52 Night Shift.

Night shift in a glass factory. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The upstream face of Boulder Dam during the night shift. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coal miners waiting for the night shift to go in. Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Concrete worker resting while his wife looks for apartments in the want ads. He works the night shift. They have been unable to find a reasonably priced apartment and are living in a tent. They are from Washington. Pacific Beach, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migratory agricultural workers waiting to go on night shift at the grading station at Camden, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the sons of Anthony Forgetta, part time farmer of Andover, Massachusetts, milking the family cow after coming home from school (Mr. Forgetta works on the night shift at the Plymouth mill in north Andover). Credit: Library of Congress.

A more well-to-do miner listening to the radio when he returns home in the morning after working on the night shift. He is Polish, his wife Hungarian. These "foreigners" are generally thrifties and their houses are cleaner than the Negros or "Americans.". Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

The number and severity of workplace accidents also tend to increase during the night shift. (references)

One study also found that medical interns working on the night shift are twice as likely as others to misinterpret hospital test records, which could endanger their patients. (references)

Sleep loss is greatest for night shift workers, those who work early morning shifts, and female shift workers with children at home. About 60 to 70 percent of shift workers have difficulty sleeping and/or problem sleepiness. (references)

Economic History

Austria

For example, the night shift ban for women will be completely phased out by 2001 in line with pertinent EU regulations. (references)

Guatemala

For day shift workers the standard, six-day work week is 44 hours; for night shift workers it is 36 hours; for swing shift workers it is 42 hours. (references)

Worker Rights

Latvia

The law restricts employment of those under the age of 18; for example, by banning night shift or overtime work. (references)

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Expression using "night shift": be on the night shift. Additional references.

Albanian

turn nate. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нощна смяна (dogwatch). (various references)

Czech

noèní smìna. (various references)

Danish

nathold. (various references)

Dutch

nachtploeg (night-shift). (various references)

French

relève de nuit, poste gris, poste de seize heures, poste de nuit (nightshift), équipe de nuit (nightshift). (various references)

German

Nachtschicht. (various references)

Greek 

νυχτερινή βάρδια (night watch). (various references)

Hungarian

éjszakai mûszak, éjszakai műszak (graveyard shift). (various references)

Italian

turno di notte. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

夜業 (night work), 夜勤 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やぎょう (night train, night travel, night work, walking around at night), やき�" (metallurgy, wild birds). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightnay iftshay.(various references)

Portuguese

turno da noite. (various references)

Romanian

schimb de noapte. (various references)

Russian 

ночная смена (lodging turn, night-shift). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

noćna smena. (various references)

Spanish

turno de noche (night watch). (various references)

Turkish

gece mesaisi (swing shift), gece şifti. (various references)

Ukrainian

нічна зміна, жіноча нічна сорочка (bedgown, night-robe). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fittings, infights, shifting, tithings.

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-4 letters: fights, finish, gittin, hights, nights, siting, thighs, things, tights.

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