Noun
night shift (plural night shifts)
- A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours.
- Antonym: day shift
- Coordinate terms: first shift; second shift, third shift (sometimes synonymous); swing shift
- Near-synonym: graveyard shift (sometimes coordinate)
I prefer to work the night shift, but I take the day shift in stride.
- A group of workers who work during the night.
- Antonym: day shift
- Coordinate terms: first shift; second shift, third shift (sometimes synonymous); swing shift
- Near-synonym: graveyard shift (sometimes coordinate)
You'll have to ask the night shift — the equipment was here when we left.
Translations
period
- Catalan: jornada nocturna f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 夜班 (zh) (yèbān), 大夜班 (dàyèbān), 大夜 (zh) (dàyè)
- Czech: noční směna f
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: nachtdienst (nl)
- Finnish: yövuoro (fi)
- French: poste de nuit (fr) m
- German: Nachtschicht (de) f
- Greek: νυχτερινή βάρδια f (nychteriní várdia)
- Italian: turno di notte m, turno notturno m, terzo turno m, (la) terza (it) f, (la) notte (it) f
- Japanese: 夜勤 (ja) (やきん, yakin)
- Korean: 야근 (ko) (yageun)
- Lombard: (la) nòt (lmo) f or nòcc f, (la) terza (lmo) f or (el) terz (lmo) m
- Macedonian: ноќна смена f (noḱna smena)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nattskift n
- Nynorsk: nattskift n
- Polish: nocna zmiana (pl) f, nocka (pl) f
- Portuguese: turno da noite m, turno noturno m
- Russian: ночна́я сме́на f (nočnája sména)
- Slovak: nočná zmena f
- Spanish: el turno nocturno m
- Swedish: nattskift (sv) n
- Turkish: gece vardiyası
- Ukrainian: нічна зміна f (nična zmina)
- Vietnamese: ca đêm
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group of workers
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 夜班職員 / 夜班职员 (yèbān zhíyuán)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: nachtdienst (nl)
- Finnish: yövuoro (fi)
- French: équipe de nuit f
- German: Nachtschicht (de) f
- Greek: νυχτερινή βάρδια f (nychteriní várdia)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ноќна смена f (noḱna smena)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nattskift n
- Nynorsk: nattskift n
- Polish: nocna zmiana (pl) f
- Portuguese: turno da noite m, turno noturno m
- Russian: ночна́я сме́на f (nočnája sména)
- Spanish: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: nattskift (sv) n
- Turkish: gececiler
- Ukrainian: нічна зміна f (nična zmina)
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