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Discover LudwigThe word "shunt" is correct and usable in written English.
It primarily refers to the act of diverting or sending something off in a different direction, especially to a place where it will be stored or disposed of. For example: The authorities decided to shunt the excess waste to a nearby landfill.
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shunt
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A switch on a railway
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Featuring voice talent including Eddie Redmayne, John Hurt and Jamie Campbell Bower, it will either signal the resuscitation of Thomas the Tank Engine, or definitively shunt him into the buffers.
Now it seems Apple is making a direct move to stop the long lines and shunt people to its online storefront.
As the best remaining source of a mass audience, TV and film are the best places to create and promote the next "Simpsons" or "Narnia".Some people worry that new media companies may over time shunt old ones aside as producers of content.
Just 17 years later, Helmut Kohl managed to secure unification without abandoning the Western orientation.In this section Giving a shunt towards Europe Steel magnolia A slow thaw Stone-throwers in glass houses A German anniversary Libertas or freedom?
But he has already done it great harm by handing ammunition to EU countries that would love to shunt the Czechs to one side (read some European newspapers, and you would think Mr Klaus was the only political leader in Prague).
It wants to shunt the local education authorities into providing back-up services, such as school transport and provision for difficult, disruptive and specially needy pupils.
These dial lots of phone numbers at once and shunt aside disconnected lines, faxes and answering machines.
And it would take five minutes to shunt the re-regulation of finance into groups that can deliberate now and act later, when there is more time and less ire: the last thing to fear from Wall Street today is irrational exuberance.It is the third task that is being neglected.
They also shunt older people into retirement when they still have much to offer.
They then shunt it around in a complex co-decision procedure that takes on average more than two years.
The army, which stepped in to shunt Mr Mubarak aside and then lingered too long, is reluctant to dirty its hands again.The young hotheads at the heart of today's protests might like nothing more than to see Mr Morsi forced into an ignominious, Mubarak-like exit.
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