Swing Shift

Definition: Swing Shift

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

Specialty Definition: Swing Shift

Domain	Definition
Labor	A crew of workers. . . on continuous operation schedule. The name derives from the need to have at least one shift. . . rotating to different days and hours at specified intervals. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Workday from 4 p.m. to midnight b. Occasionally refers to the 12 midnight to 8 a.m. shift c. Working arrangement in a three-shift continuously run plant that changes working hours at regular intervals. During swing the old morning shift becomes the new afternoon shift. The afternoon shift of the first period must work the morning shift of the next with only an 8-h break onthe first day of change. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Usage: Swing Shift

Commercial Usage: Swing Shift

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Swing Shift (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Swing Shift

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Production. Airplanes. A swing shift worker at a large Western aircraft plant eats his lunch on the assembly line floor. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Swing Shift

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guatemala	For day shift workers the standard, six-day work week is 44 hours; for night shift workers it is 36 hours; for swing shift workers it is 42 hours. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Swing Shift

Modern Translation: Swing Shift

Language		Translations for "swing shift"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		poste de relève. (various references)

Pig Latin		ingsway iftshay

Turkish		gece mesaisi (night shift), dört ile gece oniki arası mesai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Swing Shift

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-i-n-s-s-t-w"
	-2 letters: fishings, infights, insights, shifting, siftings, swishing, whisting, whitings.
	-3 letters: fishing, fisting, hissing, histing, infight, insight, sifting, swinish, whiting, wishing, wissing, wisting, withing, withins.
	-4 letters: fights, finish, insist, nights, shifts, sights, siting, stings, swifts, swings, things, whists, wifing, wights, winish, wising, within, witing.
	-5 letters: fight, finis, fists, gifts, gists, hints, hists, intis, nighs, night, shift.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
swing shift	24
swing shift movie	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.