back shift
Britishnoun
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a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
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the period worked
Example Sentences
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The Emergency Room nurses who go back shift after shift.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020
The muscles of his back shift beneath his T-shirt.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Cuckoo felt the little dog's back shift against her stretched-out toes, and suddenly a bitter flood of red ran over her thin, half-starved face, and she hid it in the tumbled pillow, pressing it down.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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