SHELVE


Meaning of SHELVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃelv ]

( shelves, shelving, shelved)

1.

If someone shelves a plan or project, they decide not to continue with it, either for a while or permanently.

Atlanta has shelved plans to include golf in the 1996 Games...

Sadly, the project has now been shelved.

VERB : V n , be V-ed

2.

If an area of ground next to or under the sea shelves , it slopes downwards.

The shoreline shelves away steeply.

...a gently shelving beach.

VERB : V adv / prep , V-ing

3.

Shelves is the plural of shelf .

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