shifting

  • 61shifting — shift·ing || ʃɪftɪŋ n. moving, changing, varying ʃɪft n. scheduled work period; change in position, change in direction; replacement, substitution; transfer, exchange; ruse, trick; loose fitting woman s dress; woman s slip v. move; cause… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 62shifting — Changing; varying; passing from one person to another by substitution …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 63shifting — Changing position. Varying. Passing from one person to another …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 64shifting fire — Fire delivered at constant range at varying deflections; used to cover the width of a target that is too great to be covered by an open sheaf …

    Military dictionary

  • 65Shifting Attitudes in a Changing World — ▪ 1998 by Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Harlem Brundtland is a physician who left medicine to launch a career in politics. During the time she served as prime minister of Norway (February October 1981, 1986 89, and 1990 96), she was the dominant… …

    Universalium

  • 66shifting cultivation —   a farming system in which a small tribal group cuts and burns the natural vegetation before cultivating the land. After a number of years the land becomes depleted and the group moves to a new area. The original land will recover after a period …

    Geography glossary

  • 67shifting dullness — dullness on abdominal percussion, the level of which shifts as the patient is rolled from side to side; indicative of free fluid in the abdominal cavity …

    Medical dictionary

  • 68shifting risk — In insurance, a risk created by a contract of insurance on a stock of merchandise, or other similar property, which is kept for sale, or is subject to change in items by purchase and sale; the policy being conditioned to cover the goods in the… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 69shifting severally — See severally …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 70shifting stock of merchandise — A stock of merchandise subject to change from time to time, in the course of trade by purchases, sales, or other transactions …

    Black's law dictionary