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1shift and shaft — v. To shift programs to a lower level of government without providing the means with which to pay for those programs. shift and shaft n. shift and shaft adj. Example Citations: The Colorado Municipal League s Sam Mamet coined the term shift and… …
2Shift 2: Unleashed — European cover art Developer(s) Slightly Mad Studios Publisher(s) Electronic Arts …
3shift-share analysis — shift share analysis, shift share technique This is a frequently used technique in the analysis of changing occupational distributions and employment growth. It begins from an observed change at the aggregate level and then attempts to decompose… …
4Shift — Shift, v. i. 1. To divide; to distribute. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another;… …
5Shift work — is an employment practice designed to make use of the 24 hours of the clock, rather than a standard working day. The term shift work includes both long term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts. [cite web… …
6Shift — Shift, n. [Cf. Icel. skipti. See {Shift}, v. t.] 1. The act of shifting. Specifically: (a) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. [1913 Webster] My going to Oxford was not… …
7Shift Out and Shift In characters — Shift Out (SO) and Shift In (SI) are ASCII control characters 14 and 15, respectively (0xE and 0xF).  The original meaning of those characters was to switch to a different character set and back.  This was used, for instance, in the… …
8Shift (Narnia) — Infobox Narnia character caption=An artist s depiction of Shift the Ape, with Puzzle on the right, as Aslan. name=Shift race=Talking Ape nation=Narnia gender=Male birthplace=Caldron Pool, Narnia major1=The Last BattleShift is a fictional… …
9shift — ▪ I. shift shift 1 [ʆɪft] noun [countable] 1. HUMAN RESOURCES one of the set periods of time during each day and night when a group of workers in a factory etc are at work before being replaced by another group of workers: • She works an eight… …
10shift — I UK [ʃɪft] / US verb Word forms shift : present tense I/you/we/they shift he/she/it shifts present participle shifting past tense shifted past participle shifted *** 1) [intransitive/transitive] if an idea, attitude, or plan shifts, or if… …
