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deshelving

deshelving noun: the removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability.

Noun

deshelving (uncountable)

  1. The removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability.
    • Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving.2013, M. Hallward, Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, →ISBN, page 197
  2. The process in which electrons change to an orbital with a lower, intermediate level of excitation.
    • controlled optical deshelving

Origin of deshelving

From de- + shelving.

Questions about deshelving

What does deshelving mean?
Deshelving means the removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability.
What part of speech is deshelving?
Deshelving is a noun.

Words near deshelving in the dictionary

  1. deshelling
  2. deshells
  3. deshelve
  4. deshelved
  5. deshelves
  6. deshelving
  7. deshi
  8. deshielded
  9. deshielding
  10. deshieldings
  11. deshil

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