freezing
n.— «Hospital workers also are upset with a practice called “freezing,” in which they’re ordered to work back-to-back eight-hour shifts.» —“Unsafe conditions found at state psychiatric hospital” by Eric Eyre Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) July 7, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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