After protests from environmentalist groups, the government has shelved plans to build an eight-lane highway through the gorge

shelve

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vplace on a shelf

“shelve books”

Type of:

lay, place, pose, position, put, set

put into a certain place or abstract location

vhold back to a later time

Synonyms:

defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over,remit, set back, table

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Type of:

delay

act later than planned, scheduled, or required