graveyard watch
Overnight duty assignment
The graveyard watch is a work shift covering the late night and early morning hours, typically midnight to 8 a.m.
The name reflects the quietness and low activity of these hours—when most people are asleep and the world feels still as a cemetery.
Also called the graveyard shift: She's been on the graveyard watch for three months.
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- witching hourTime of supernatural activity
- wee hoursEarly morning period
- small hoursPeriod after midnight
- guardWatchful defensive attention
security guard · night shift · skeleton crew · skeleton staff · long hours · burning the midnight oil · vigilance · shift · dead of night · late night · solitude · third shift · silence · sentinel · shadow · chill · darkness · nocturnal
graveyard watchday shift
Work period during sunlight
morning shift · first shift · first watch · morning watch · afternoon shift
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