to (cause something or someone to) move or change from one position or direction to another, especially slightly:
She shifted (her weight) uneasily from one foot to the other.
The wind is expected to shift (to the east) tomorrow.
C1 [ I ]
(of an idea, opinion, etc.) to change:
Society's attitudes towards women have shifted enormously over the last century.
Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.
[ T ] mainly US(UK usually change)
to move the gears of a vehicle into different positions in order to make it go faster or slower:
In cars that are automatics, you don't have to bother with shifting gears.
shift house
Indian English
to leave your home in order to live in a new one; move house
Placing and positioning an object
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Changing
On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
Changing homes & moving
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shift verb (GET RID OF)
[ T ] UK informal
to get rid of something unwanted, or to sell something:
Modern detergents will shift most stains.
The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
Removing and getting rid of things
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shift yourself
shift (your) ground
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shift for yourself
shift
noun
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/ʃɪft/shift noun (GROUP)
B2 [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
a group of workers who do a job for a period of time during the day or night, or the period of time itself:
As the night shift leave/leaves, the day shift arrive/arrives.
Are you on the night shift or the day shift? (= Do you work during the night period or the day period?)
Workers in general
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shift noun (CHANGE)
C1 [ C ]
a change in position or direction:
a shift in the wind/temperature
The shift in the balance of power in the region has had far-reaching consequences.
There has been a dramatic shift in public opinion towards peaceful negotiations.
Change and changes
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shift noun (DRESS)
[ C ]
a simple dress that hangs straight from the shoulders
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Dresses, suits & gowns
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shift yourself
idiom UKIf you shift yourself when you have a job to do, you hurry to do the job as quickly as possible:
Come on, there's work to be done - shift yourself.
Expressions telling people to hurry up
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shift
verb [ I/T ]
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/ʃɪft/shift verb [I/T] (MOVE OR CHANGE)
to change direction or move from one person, position, or place to another:
[ I ] The wind shifted to the east.
[ T ] She shifted her weight from one foot to the other.
[ T ] He tried to shift the blame onto his sister.
If you shift your emphasis or attitude, you change it:
[ T ] Our attention has shifted from baseball to the election.
When you shift the gears of a vehicle, you move them into different positions to change the speed of the vehicle.
Thành ngữ
shift gears
shift
noun [ C ]
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/ʃɪft/shift noun [C] (PERIOD)
the period that a person is scheduled to work, or a group of workers who work during the same period of time:
I’m working the day shift this month.
The night shift is finished at 7 a.m.
shift noun [C] (MOVE OR CHANGE)
a change in position or direction:
There’s been a substantial shift in doctors’ methods.
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shift
verb
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[ T ]
to move something to a different place or position:
shift sth to sth They shifted the money to another account.
shift sth out of sth Rising costs forced them to shift manufacturing work out of Europe.
[ I or T ]
to change an opinion, idea, etc.:
shift focus/emphasis/attention
shift (sth) away from sth They have shifted the emphasis of the business away from traditional manufacturing.
shift (sth) towards sth The company has shifted towards a more flexible marketing mix.
HR have shifted their position on overtime working and this will no longer be encouraged.
[ T ] COMMERCE informal
to manage to sell goods:
At that time, Sony had shifted 30 million Playstation3 consoles since launch.
The sales projections were over-optimistic and left them with $100 million of stock they couldn't shift.
shift
noun
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[ C ] HR, WORKPLACE
an agreed period of time during the day or night when particular employees work, in a factory, hospital, etc.:
He worked an 8 hour shift at the hospital.
begin/end your shift They begin their shift at 4pm.
[ C ] HR, WORKPLACE
the group of workers who work at a particular time:
the day/night/late shift We work until 8am, when the day shift takes over.
[ C, usually singular ]
a movement or change in something:
a shift in sth There's been a major shift in strategy.
a shift away from/towards sth The shift towards specialisation favours smaller firms.
[ U ] IT
on a computer keyboard, a key that changes the letter, number, or symbol that would normally appear when you press another key at the same time:
Press shift to capitalize letters.
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back shift
graveyard shift
night shift
paradigm shift
swing shift
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In that way, those who occupy veto points may be bought out, thereby allowing policy to be shifted onto a new path.
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An important part of the development of chemotherapy services has been the shift in administration and support for chemotherapy towards specialist nursing services.
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Including too few elements would result in numerous unnecessary focus shifts whereas including too many elements would preclude real focus shifts.
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In other words, a conversational move provokes a focus shift.
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However, this increase masks a shift from child-minders to day nurseries since the late 1990s.
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The shift was evident in the area of social care delivery.
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These changes have in effect shifted costs from employers to workers.
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This has been described as a shift from government to governance: from representative to participatory democracy.
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There was another shift in the 1980s, due to the needs of uncertain reasoning in virtually all applications of expert systems, especially in medicine.
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The shifts are long enough to produce any order.
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But acknowledging antecedents should not blind us to important intellectual shifts in the early twentieth century.
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These organisations then shifted their attention to the observation of democratisation between elections.
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By shifting the threshold systematically, effectively the host population is stratified.
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In addition, if a population shift were the source of alarms, we would expect those alarms to appear mainly in one area or another.
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When water flows, the temperature distribution and the water composition distribution change their form or at least are shifted in the direction of the flow.
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