shifting

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 9.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A shift or change; a shifting movement.
2. noun The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
3. verb present participle and gerund of shift

Similar words

moving variable loose unfirm movement transition turning transfer change reversing

Often followed by

of the from to cultivation and his in sands

Word family

shift shifted shifts