Definition of "night-shift" []

• See shift, n., 6. (noun)
• A shift or shirt used to sleep in: so called in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At one point, the company was so overwhelmed with shipping orders that Mr. Croak sent out a plea for night-shift workers on Facebook."
• "Before me, one mature able-bodied labourer had done the day shift and another equally mature able-bodied labourer had done the night-shift."
• "William Petersen originally played night-shift entomologist Gil Grissom."