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reshelving

reshelving is the present participle and gerund of reshelve.

Meaning of reshelve

Verb

reshelve (third-person singular simple present reshelves, present participle reshelving, simple past and past participle reshelved)

  1. (transitive) To shelve again; to place back on a shelf.

Noun

reshelving (plural reshelvings)

  1. The act of placing back on a shelf.
    • The least popular books had had fewer than four reshelvings in ten years.

Forms of reshelving

pluralreshelvings

Questions about reshelving

What does reshelving mean?
Reshelving means the act of placing back on a shelf.
What is reshelving the present participle and gerund of?
Reshelving is the present participle and gerund of reshelve.
What part of speech is reshelving?
Reshelving is a noun.
What is the plural of reshelving?
The plural of reshelving is reshelvings.

Words near reshelving in the dictionary

  1. resheeting
  2. resheets
  3. reshelve
  4. reshelved
  5. reshelves
  6. reshelving
  7. reshelvings
  8. Resheph
  9. reshes
  10. Reshetar
  11. Reshetars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reshelving (page history and authors); reshelve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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