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shifting off

shifting off is the present participle and gerund of shift off.

Meaning of shift off

Verb

shift off (third-person singular simple present shifts off, present participle shifting off, simple past and past participle shifted off)

  1. To delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.

Questions about shifting off

What is shifting off the present participle and gerund of?
Shifting off is the present participle and gerund of shift off.

Words near shifting off in the dictionary

  1. shifting executory interest
  2. shifting executory interests
  3. shifting gears
  4. shifting ground
  5. shifting in
  6. shifting off
  7. shifting one's ground
  8. shifting out
  9. shifting spanner
  10. shifting spanners
  11. shifting the cut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shifting off (page history and authors); shift off (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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