deshelving

English

Etymology

de- +‎ shelving

Noun

deshelving (uncountable)

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