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shift

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"Change or move"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɪft/Part of speech noun, verbSorted fhistStarts with SEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Change, move, period of work, or transfer.

Word origin

The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with German Schicht (“layer, shift”).

Used in a sentence

  • There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
  • c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
  • The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.

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