shunted

Speech parts

1. shunted - Adjective

2. shunted - Verb

Meaning

of Shunt

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Examples

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. Eleanor Roosevelt

After production had begun, Congress abolished the United States Film Service, and the project was shunted to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Source: Internet

His vision of a village-dominated economy was shunted aside during his lifetime as rural romanticism, and his call for a national ethos of personal austerity and nonviolence has proved antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic and military power." Source: Internet

Often, they have to clash with the powers-that-be — and sometimes have to see their good work of years be dumped down the drain — as they are shunted out so that some more pliable successor can take over and unravel all that they’ve done. Source: Internet

And yet new mums are being shunted out of hospitals with unseemly haste because of a shortage of midwives, according to an NSW Nurses and Midwives Association submission to an inquiry into maternity health's Danielle Le Messurier this week. Source: Internet

It is possible that the Living Laser's body has not been totally destroyed, but was shunted permanently into the energy dimension from which Captain Marvel derives her powers, and replaced by an equivalent "quantity" of light. Source: Internet

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