Meaning & use

Shuttling

verb·Everyday

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Traveling or moving something back and forth regularly between two places.

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A small bus kept shuttling passengers between the parking lot and the terminal.

She spent the year shuttling between two cities for work.

A note on using this word

The word evokes the back-and-forth motion of a weaving shuttle, which passes repeatedly across a loom.

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