"graveyard shift" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By association of the spooky, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graveyard shifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "graveyard shift (plural graveyard shifts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Night",
          "orig": "en:Night",
          "parents": [
            "Darkness",
            "Time",
            "Light",
            "All topics",
            "Energy",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "day shift"
        },
        {
          "word": "swing shift"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Roberto Refinetti, Circadian physiology, volume 1, page 580",
          "text": "It is generally believed that when rotating shifts are necessary the rotation should move clockwise (that is, day shift first, then swing shift, then graveyard shift, then back to day shift, and so on)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A night shift, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule."
      ],
      "id": "en-graveyard_shift-en-noun-n~k6LVEI",
      "links": [
        [
          "night shift",
          "night shift"
        ],
        [
          "midnight",
          "midnight"
        ],
        [
          "AM",
          "AM"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "night shift, especially starting near midnight",
          "word": "third shift"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "noštna smjana",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "нощна смяна"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yèbān",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "word": "夜班"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "word": "yövuoro"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "poste de nuit"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "nychteriní várdia",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "νυχτερινή βάρδια"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nočnája sména",
          "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ночна́я сме́на"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "graveyard shift"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "day shift"
    },
    {
      "word": "swing shift"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By association of the spooky, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "graveyard shifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "graveyard shift (plural graveyard shifts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Night"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Roberto Refinetti, Circadian physiology, volume 1, page 580",
          "text": "It is generally believed that when rotating shifts are necessary the rotation should move clockwise (that is, day shift first, then swing shift, then graveyard shift, then back to day shift, and so on)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A night shift, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "night shift",
          "night shift"
        ],
        [
          "midnight",
          "midnight"
        ],
        [
          "AM",
          "AM"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "night shift, especially starting near midnight",
      "word": "third shift"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "noštna smjana",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нощна смяна"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yèbān",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "word": "夜班"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "word": "yövuoro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poste de nuit"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "nychteriní várdia",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "νυχτερινή βάρδια"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nočnája sména",
      "sense": "a night shift, such as especially one from midnight to 8AM on a three-shift schedule",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ночна́я сме́на"
    }
  ],
  "word": "graveyard shift"
}