graveyard shift

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnight shift

   Broadershift
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsnight shift

   Broadershift

Questions about graveyard shift

What does graveyard shift mean?

graveyard shift means "the work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for graveyard shift?

Close synonyms include night shift, night shift. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is graveyard shift a common word?

graveyard shift is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.