shift
noun [C, + sing/pl verb] (GROUP) /ʃɪft/Definition
B2 a group of workers who do a job for a period of time during the day or night, or the period of time itself: As the night shift leave/leaves, the day shift arrive/arrives. Are you on the night shift or the day shift? (= Do you work during the night period or the day period?)Workers in general
(Definition of shift noun (GROUP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a man of action idiom
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- junior noun (LOW RANK)
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- manpower noun
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- practitioner noun
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- salaryman noun
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