graveyard shiftnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡreɪv.jɑːd ˌʃɪft/us/ˈɡreɪv.jɑːrd ˌʃɪft/informala period of work, for example in a factory, that begins late at night and ends early in the morning:
to work the graveyard shift
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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