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swing shift
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swing shift [′swiŋ ‚shift]
(industrial engineering)
Working arrangement in a three-shift, continuously run plant with working hours changed at regular intervals; during a swing shift the morning shift becomes the afternoon shift, while the afternoon shift becomes the morning shift of the next day, with only an 8-hour break on the first day of change.


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Ghaffari said restrictions on overtime work imposed in April, as a budgetary measure, mean that fewer controllers are working in Palmdale during day and swing shifts.
As with any law enforcement agency faced with providing 24-hour service, scheduling and working swing shifts remain commonplace.
Well, three more mids, then four day shifts, and she'd have three days off with her baby before returning for the swing shifts.
 
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