shed light on something

shed | Business English

shed
verb[ T ]
uk /ʃed/usshedding | shed | shed
to get rid of something you do not need or want, especially jobs or employees:
There are rumors that the retailer will shed more than 400 jobs over the next year.
shed workers/employees/staff
STOCK MARKET
to lose value in the stock market or other financial markets:
The stock shed another 16% of its value yesterday, closing at $15.25.
The Dow Jones industrial average shed 242.66 points, or 1.97%, to close at 12,075.96.
shed
noun[ C ]
uk /ʃed/us
a large simple building, usually used for storing equipment:
The structure is used as a truck storage shed.

Examples of shed

shed
Up to several thousand snails were collected at each site and those snails shedding apharyngeate, spined, cercariae (also lacking eye-spots) were isolated.
Twelve farms were known to have had a prior history of shedding before the start of the study.
In contrast, the length of the shedding period and the number of cercariae showed no significant differences between the two snail groups.
By shedding excess and approaching sung dialogue as if it were speech, singers were to be singing actors - the imperative of a musical dramatic art.
Uninfected snails were included in the data for the duration of cercariae shedding, while those containing trematodes were excluded.
When analysing the emergence curves per individual snail (figures not shown), a total of 6 shedding pauses are evident.
The analysis was, finally, confined to observations at weeks 10 -13, when shedding of eggs had stabilized.
A peak in the high intensity category and shedding in the medium and low intensity category were also observed during this period.
The snails were examined for emerging cercariae from day 28 following exposure and checked for cercarial shedding until death.
The treatment of the death rate of shedding snails is more complicated.
Shared intelligence can be very valuable if it sheds light on important foreign policy problems.
Each season, the rectal samples were collected from different calves at different cattle sheds in a farm.
Research on one aspect of language use - how the turns of speakers and priorities of topic are determined sheds light on conversational politics.
Research is shedding light on the mechanisms involved in selecting and establishing preferentially active neural patterns.
They showed results for the starting and developing flow past a cylinder shedding a vortex-street wake.
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equipment shed
One farm equipmentshed was demolished, and another sustained major damage.
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