Usually means: Employment outside standard daytime hours.
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  1. shiftwork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shiftwork: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Shiftwork, shiftwork: Wordnik
  4. shiftwork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. shiftwork: Wiktionary
  6. Shiftwork (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. shiftwork: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shiftwork)

noun:  Scheduled work outside of customary daylight working hours.
noun:  A mode of employment in which sets of workers are rotated to maintain a continuous 24/7 operation; usually, with a system of three 8-hour shifts (24 ÷ 3 = 8): first shift, second shift, and third shift.

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