American EnglishAmE informalBECworkers who work from three or four o’clock in the afternoon until 11 or 12 o’clock at night, or the system of working these times 〔三班制的〕中班工人;中班〔时间通常为下午 3 点或 4 点至晚上 11 点或 12 点〕
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swing shift• When the swing shift comes on duty the clock says four-thirty, just like it should.• I was working the swing shift when Albert White said he knew a guy that was going to start a newspaperbusiness.