nightwork
nounUK /ˈnʌɪtwəːk/
Etymology From night + work. Compare Dutch nachtwerk, German Nachtwerk.
1
Work which is carried out at night.
- Much of that highway reconstruction project was nightwork.
- I don't know why it is the hours fly with such a strange celerity in the monotony and solitude of such nightwork.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
1 more example
- ‘Under journalist cover we bring her into play, give her Chinese newspapers to translate, send her on little errands, involve her, complete her education and train her in nightwork.’1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 183:
- Related terms
- at night, be on nights, night job, nightly, night owl, night shift, shiftwork, graveyard shift, moonlighting, third shift