Usually means: Storing items on raised platforms.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word shelving:

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  1. shelving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shelving: Merriam-Webster
  3. shelving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shelving: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shelving: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shelving: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shelving, shelving: Wordnik
  8. shelving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shelving: Wiktionary
  10. shelving: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shelving: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shelving: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shelving: Dictionary.com
  14. shelving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shelving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shelving: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Shelving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shelving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. shelving: FreeDictionary.org
  20. shelving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shelving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelving: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelving: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelving: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shelve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
noun:  Shelves collectively.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
noun:  (now rare) A sloping surface.

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