Definition of "shelved" [shelved]

• Simple past tense and past participle of shelve. (verb)
• Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves. (adjective)
• Postponed. (adjective)

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• "When the record tanked, his label shelved the follow-up and, in 1977, dropped Mellencamp altogether."
• "Unable to identify any hits in the miasma, the label shelved it."
• "How long it will have to remain shelved, I cannot say."