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