swing shift

1. 1.

   the work shift during the evening (as 4 p.m. to midnight)

   Synonymsevening shift

   Broadershift

Questions about swing shift

What does swing shift mean?

swing shift means "the work shift during the evening (as 4 p.m. to midnight)".

What is another word for swing shift?

Close synonyms include evening 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 swing shift a common word?

swing 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.