0 past simple and past participle of shelve
2 to put something onto shelves, or to fix shelves somewhere
3 When a surface such as the bottom of the sea shelves, it slopes down gradually:
At best, matters are referred to committees, whose reports are shelved.
Here then the argument from fit has been shelved altogether.
Two factors prevented the issue from being shelved.
I already noted that the bills were shelved for almost a month.
This interim report procedure provides each house with a way to salvage a bill being shelved in committee.
It may or may not have been shelved, but there is certainly no indication that it is to be implemented rapidly.
Even authorized channels, however, already by-pass the rapidly ageing shelved volumes.
The primary effect was that privatisation of hospital refectories was shelved and a more serious engagement initiated.
