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"a straight shift" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a work schedule where an employee works the same hours every day without any variations or breaks. Example: "She was exhausted after working a straight shift of 10 hours at the factory."
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I first learned to drive in a straight-shift pickup truck in a plowed field.
More typical was the halterneck dress with a chiffon overlay encrusted with embroidered cornflowers, a straight 1960s shift with a jewelled trim, and a blue gown on which feathers swooped down the back.
Again controlling for other factors, workers on split shift work about 37 min more per day (about 3 h per week) than workers in straight shift.
This finding is in stark contrast to the prediction that straight shifts make for a longer night's rest on working days (ARHOE 2013, pp. 88 89).
Mr. Straight shifted editorial policy to a position opposing Stalinism and supporting the Marshall Plan.
He said she was brought in as a relief guard after effectively working three straight shifts and wasn't given any information about complaints of excessive heat, which she herself could feel.
"2007/R is a willing performer, both strong and smooth on the road, that tracks straight, shifts smoothly with sturdy brakes and has no known mechanical faults," Mr. Rose wrote of the car, in preparation of the 2010 auction catalog.
This would be also the case of more able individuals if working straight shifts were considered to be more convenient (Amuedo-Dorantes and de la Rica 2009).
"So I pulled a straight 24-hour shift.
Harrison's 86 drivers receive a flat $150 a day -- which the company has offered to increase by 75 cents, Fraser said -- so a straight eight-hour shift works out to $18.75 an hour.
In the case of a sporadic E layer, the reflected wave has nearly zero Doppler shift and forms a straight line in the Doppler shift spectrogram.
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