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deshelving en · NOUN

Etymology

From de- + shelving.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability.
    • Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving. 2013, M. Hallward, Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, →ISBN, page 197:
  2. (uncountable) The process in which electrons change to an orbital with a lower, intermediate level of excitation.
    • controlled optical deshelving