The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TRANSFER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TRANSFER
- In Whistler’s paintings note revolutionary shift
- Practises to miss out one man in the middle, going over football move
- Hand over drills – less one if gear has odd parts missing
- In football move, run faster to leave United floundering
- Errant fools disheartened about move
- Download permitted in Windows?
- Change poles in reversal of Whistler painting
- After shuffling round both poles, start to really move
- Ref rants about changeover
- Research covering fine new creative work about to change
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The straight part
We know that "shift" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shift = transfer.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TRANSFER mean?
TRANSFER noun- The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- To be or become transferred.
- To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.