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shiftsnounpl. of shift an action planned or taken to achieve a desired resultdesperate shifts to stave off financial disaster expedients, means, measures, moves, steps actions, acts, deeds, doings, feats, thingscourses, procedures, proceedings, processesaccomplishments, achievements, attainments, coups, exploits, successes, triumphsactivities, affairs, businesses, dealings, enterprises, eventsattempts, cracks, endeavors, essays, flings, goes, initiatives, operations, passes, shots, stabs, trials, tries, undertakings, whacksefforts, exertions, labors, pains, troubles, whiles, worksprojects, proposals, propositionsmakeshifts, resorts, resources, stopgapscountermeasures, countermoves(or counter-moves), countersteps(or counter-steps) the act or an instance of changing positionmade a small shift to the left to make more room on the bench motions, movements, moves, stirrings, stirs dislocations, migrations, relocationslocomotions, mobilities, motilities, motivitiesfiddlings, squirms immobilitiesinertiascessations, discontinuances, endings, expirations, finishes, halts, lapses, pauses, shutdowns, shutoffs, stoppages, stops, surceases, terminations shiftsverbpresent tense third-person singular of shiftto change the place or position ofhe shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over budges, dislocates, displaces, disturbs, moves, relocates, removes, repositions, transfers, transposes bears, carries, carts, conveys, drives, hauls, lugs, totes, transmits, transplants, transportsreplaces, supersedes, supplantsalters, makes over, modifies, redoes, refashions, remakes, remodels, revamps, revises, reworks, varies anchors, fixes, freezes, moors, secures, sets, stabilizesembeds(also imbeds), entrenches(also intrenches), implants, ingrains(also engrains), lodges, roots to change one's positionshe shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview budges, locomotes, moves, stirs fiddles, fidgets, jiggles, squiggles, squirms, tosses, twitches, wiggles, wriggles, writhesrouses freezes, stills hangs around, remains, stays, sticks around, tarriesstabilizes to pass from one form, state, or level to anothershe watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue changes, fluctuates, mutates, snaps, varies metamorphoses, morphs, transmutesbetters, improvesdeteriorates, worsensturns aroundseesaws, teeters, vacillates, wavers plateaus, stabilizes to give up (something) and take something else in returnmy brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window changes, commutes, exchanges, substitutes, swaps, switches, trades interchangesdisplaces, replaces, supersedescedes, hands over, surrenders, yieldsreciprocates to meet one's day-to-day needsleft the others to shift for themselves copes, does, fares, gets along, gets by, gets on, makes out, manages carries on, contrives, scrapes (by or through), scroungeslasts, survivesekes out, scrapes (out), squeezes, wrests, wringsaffords, swings fends for oneself, makes do, makes ends meet, makes shift collapses, fails, falls short, fizzles, floundersdeclines, peters (out), slumps, wanesgives up |