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shift ground

shift ground is the alternative form of shift one's ground.

Meaning of shift one's ground

Verb

shift one's ground (third-person singular simple present shifts one's ground, present participle shifting one's ground, simple past and past participle shifted one's ground)

  1. To change one's opinion in a way that contradicts what one has previously held.
    • Since then, and after high-level in-person talks between ScotRail and TSSA General Secretary Maryam Eslamdoust, "the company has done nothing to suggest they are prepared to shift their ground", the union said.2024 April 3, “Network News: Fresh manager strikes at ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 9

Forms of shift ground

third-person singular presentshifts ground
present participleshifting ground
past participleshifted ground
pastshifted ground

Questions about shift ground

What is shift ground the alternative form of?
Shift ground is the alternative form of shift one's ground.

Words near shift ground in the dictionary

  1. shift break
  2. shift breaks
  3. shift dress
  4. shift dresses
  5. shift gears
  6. shift ground
  7. shift in
  8. Shift JIS
  9. shift key
  10. shift keys
  11. shift lead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shift ground (page history and authors); shift one's ground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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