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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shift for nothing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a change or effort yields no benefit or result.
Example: "After all the hard work we put into the project, it felt like a shift for nothing when the client decided to go with another company."
Alternatives: "a change for no gain" or "an effort without reward".
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To pay for equipment hire, miners often have to do a shift for nothing.
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The novella is a shift for Funder.
There's nothing fair about a something-for-nothing culture.
Some made a fuss for nothing.
Otherwise, prey may pay a foraging cost for nothing.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been nothing less than a paradigm shift for metagenomics.
Decades of African-Americans being incapable of receiving fair trials in certain courts in the US has brought about the need for a major shift in policy: nothing has said that more clearly than the election of a black president.
"One of the things she said early in our relationship was, 'Nothing you feel can be wrong,' which was a paradigm shift for me.
This is a major shift for Google.
It's clear there needs to be a shift, and sadly it's nothing new.
If you buy Peter Thiel's argument that the Internet bubble never popped, rather if shifted into the housing market, it's as if the promise of something-for-nothing just shifted from the geographically constrained group of employees at dotcoms to everyone who could get a crazy mortgage on a house.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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