evening shift
3
2.7
- noun
- /ˈiːv.nɪŋ ʃɪft/
:
turno de noche
- I had the evening shifts, going through notes on screenplays with Harvey.
- work the evening shift
- day and evening shifts
Examples
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I thought we were going to split the evening shifts.
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Samantha was his nurse and is scheduled to work the evening shift on July 7, 2006.
Academic text (2007) -
One evening, we were working the evening shift.
Fiction book (1996) -
A short while later, she needed to leave to return home to get ready for the evening shift at the diner.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm working the evening shift at the magazine store where I spend much of my time.
Blog text (32) -
The agency schedules two peer counselors for each day and evening shift.
Academic text (1997) -
Instead of teaching, she worked the evening shift at a diner on the outskirts of Edenton.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some of the dockworker types were evidently heading off for evening shifts.
Fiction book (1996) -
A new intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, Samantha, is working the evening shift.
Academic text (2007) -
She'd take the evening shift three days a week, working from four to midnight.
Synonyms
3
4.3
An evening work shift from late afternoon until around midnight
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a period of work during the evening' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'evening' (the late-afternoon-to-night period) with 'shift' (a work period). This noun–noun compounding is a common, regular pattern in English (cf. 'night shift') and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Evening shift comes from the clear picture of workers swapping at the end of the day: the evening team comes in to take a new shift as the sun goes down. So evening shift means the 'period of work' during the late afternoon and evening.