shelved

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The truth is we didn't want to sell to big pharma, they would have shelved likely.

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Quick take

Postponed or put aside indefinitely.

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adjective

Postponed or put aside indefinitely.

adjective

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shelved.

adjective

Postponed or put aside indefinitely.

adjective

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.

Example sentences

The truth is we didn't want to sell to big pharma, they would have shelved likely.

His grander ideas are shelved, because the bank just wants quick fixes to its old, messy platform.

Very often studies/research that have been funded but do not support their conclusions will simply be shelved without publication.

If the acquired employees are laid off, and the purchased company shelved, it was a failure.

Unfortunately the entire project got shelved, but it was a pretty interesting experiment while it lasted...

As for your old leisure activities, a lot of those things get necessarily shelved.

A better chance at Darpa than selling it to the doofuses at the big motor companies, where it would certainly be shelved.

Introversion were working on a game (Subversion) which has since been shelved indefinitely.

When a substantial number of them failed, the testing program was quietly shelved.

Studies that fail to replicate something are shelved, even though they're useful information.

What concerns me is that the way the stuff is shelved and advertised looks like it would lead to an uncritical person with, say, flu symptoms to just grab one of these boxes off the shelf.

So I naturally shelved any plans which I couldn't do on my own.

Quote examples

You just don't have any guarantee that the product you're using won't be shelved in leu of a "better" (newer) solution.

Before Windows 8 we just had years and years of incremental "sameness." Vista was meant to be a big shake-up but instead that got shelved and we got a very modest improvement over XP (driver issues and memory consumption not withstanding), the same with 7, it was a very incremental improvement over Vista (even if coming from XP directly made it look bigger).

Being able to sketch on paper and have the sketch turned into a visio diagram would be cool - rough circles turned into neat ones, rough lines into neat connections, this symbol into a server, that one into a building." In fact, I was working on this exact same idea for a while some time ago and shelved it when I found it to be difficult:) Do you think that this is something people would pay for?