0 past simple and past participle of shepherd --
1 to make a group of people move to where you want them to go, especially in a kind, helpful, and careful way: --
They are then led, shepherded, by an attendant parent, often for considerable distances from the nest.
Similarly, the voluntary organisations are also being shepherded into the assembly's fold.
We shall be closely shepherded to the subjects that we have put down.
Those thousands of spectators were shepherded back to the terraces and sidelines by one good-humoured policeman on a white horse.
These will have to be shepherded into joining.
One has an uncomfortable feeling that the whole business of aircraft manufacture is being shepherded on behalf of a limited number of firms.
It has shepherded armies across the intervening ocean and landed them safely on hostile shores.
This is a tribute to the care with which that lady shepherded her money, given how little her income was.