How to pronounce shunt

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What shunt means

verb

To push or switch something off to one side

In a sentence: The workers shunted the empty train cars onto a side track.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Middle English schunten, meaning to swerve or dodge. It possibly grew out of the same old word as shun.

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