Usually means: Working hours throughout the night.
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  1. graveyard shift: Merriam-Webster
  2. graveyard shift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. graveyard shift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. graveyard shift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. graveyard shift: Vocabulary.com
  6. graveyard shift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. graveyard shift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. graveyard shift: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. graveyard shift: Dictionary.com
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  12. graveyard shift: Rhymezone
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  14. graveyard shift: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. Graveyard shift: World Wide Words
  18. graveyard shift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. graveyard shift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. graveyard shift: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. the graveyard shift: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (graveyard shift)

noun:  A work shift late at night, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.
noun:  A group of workers who work during this time slot.

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