单词 | night worker |
释义 | night workern. A person who works at night, esp. one who works a night shift. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > one who works at specific time or hours night worker1601 daysman?1614 nightman1620 dayworker1802 dayman1821 full-timer1839 whole-timer1840 all-night man1861 part-timer1886 all-timer1891 over-timer1910 Saturdayite1932 nine-to-fiver1945 1601 Blacksmiths' Company Accts. (MS Guildhall 2883/3) 36 To ye Carpenter Brickleyre Nightwoorkers and laborers for clensing and making upp the vaulte. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 91 That the Smell of Gain was fragrant even to Night-Workers. 1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 174 The day and night workers take week about. 1872 Daily News 12 Oct. The people of the day-shift trooping in to relieve the night-workers. 1919 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 82 198 There must always be some night workers, and, in time of war,..there are many. 1956 Jrnl. Industr. Econ. 5 57 Night workers have for many years been paid at a higher rate, such as time and a fifth. 1995 New Scientist 21 Jan. 7/2 Night workers call it the ‘zombie zone’ or ‘hitting the wall’—that time before dawn when they can barely stay awake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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