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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnʌɪtwəːk/

名詞

nightwork (uncountable)

1. Work which is carried out at night. [from 16th c.]

   Alternative form: night work

   Hypernym: work

   Much of that highway reconstruction project was nightwork.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     I don't know why it is the hours fly with such a strange celerity in the monotony and solitude of such nightwork.

   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 183:

     ‘Under journalist cover we bring her into play, give her Chinese newspapers to translate, send her on little errands, involve her, complete her education and train her in nightwork.’

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