0 past simple and past participle of shunt
1 to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose
2 to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects:
They have been shunted from one training scheme to another with no prospect of permanent employment.
What are we left with if the chief executive is shunted off on to a two-year secondment?
Experience suggests that appointees tend to be those least likely to succeed in their own authorities, who can be conveniently shunted out into the sidings.
Once the unemployed became symbolic bearers of powerful metaphors of disease, paralysis and danger, people who had been shunted to the margins of society were suddenly the centre of attention.
In the majority of cases, this avoided being shunted off to another person within the organisation.
Instead, gaming with dice, like strip poker, gets shunted off to a peripheral cluster in this sort of context.
Drains and aqueducts shunted water above and below ground, often under plaza spaces.
There was no such correlation in patients shunted alone.
