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deslot

deslot verb: to remove from a slot of any kind.

Verb

deslot (third-person singular simple present deslots, present participle deslotting, simple past and past participle deslotted)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a slot of any kind.
    • Now retailers even demand deslotting or failure fees, a penalty for trial products that fail to meet their sales objectives. The struggle over display space heavily favors the incumbents and encourages what might be called brand nepotism.1989, Report on Business Magazine, volume 6, numbers 1-6, page 100
    • He had lit into Jack with fists flying, knocking him against a corner of the slot car race track hard enough to jar the track and deslot half of the cars racing.2009, Matt Christopher, Lucky Seven: Sports Stories

Forms of deslot

third-person singular presentdeslots
present participledeslotting
past participledeslotted
pastdeslotted

Origin of deslot

From de- + slot.

Questions about deslot

What does deslot mean?
Deslot means to remove from a slot of any kind.
What part of speech is deslot?
Deslot is a verb.
What is the past tense of deslot?
The past tense of deslot is deslotted.

Words near deslot in the dictionary

  1. deslimes
  2. desliming
  3. desloratadine
  4. desloratidine
  5. deslorelin
  6. deslot
  7. deslots
  8. deslotted
  9. deslotting
  10. desludge
  11. desludged

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