nightshift
Owl-hour employment
A nightshift is a work period during nighttime hours, typically from late evening through early morning: She's been working the nightshift at the hospital.
Also refers to the workers on duty during those hours: The nightshift comes in at eleven.
Often written as two words: night shift.
Spanning evening to morning
- 24/7Continuously without pause
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- factoryIndustrial production facility
nurse · security · hospital · custodian · janitorial · retail · hospitality · production
overnight
Spanning evening to morning
- 24/7Continuously without pause
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
factory · nurse · security · hospital · custodian · janitorial · retail · hospitality · production · staffing
exhaustion
State of utter depletion
burnout · bleary-eyed · yawning · drained · sluggish · coffee · caffeine · second wind · circadian · sleep deprivation
darkness
Total absence of light
stillness · empty streets · fluorescent lights · silence · hush · eerie · deserted · calm · lonely · peaceful
- predawnfirst light, dawn, twilight, cockcrow, small hours
nightshiftday shift
Work period during sunlight
dayshift · morning shift · first shift · 9 to 5 · regular hours
shift, night, nightmare, nightfall, nighttime, nightly, shifty, nightgown, nightcap