verb [VN]
1 to move a train or a railway carriage/train car from one track to another
2 [+adv./prep.] (usually disapproving) to move sb/sth to a different place, especially a less important one:
John was shunted sideways to a job in sales.
\
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shunt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does shunt appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — shunt appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
