work shift

1. 1.

   the time period during which you are at work

   Synonymsshiftduty period

   Broaderhours

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   Part ofworkday

Questions about work shift

What does work shift mean?

work shift means "the time period during which you are at work".

What is another word for work shift?

Close synonyms include shift, duty period. 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 work shift a common word?

work 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.