on the shelf

shelf | Business English

shelf
noun[ C ]
uk /ʃelf/uspluralshelves/ʃelvz/
a long flat board fixed horizontally, for example against a wall or inside a cupboard, on which objects are stored or shown for sale:
In another room, stacked on every available shelf are four to five hundred large storage boxes.
Supermarket shelves are filled with cheap, mass-produced food that is packed with calories.
fill/refill the shelves
stock/restock the shelves
The manufacturer has asked retailers to remove the product from the shelves.
 off the shelf
COMMERCE, MARKETING
if a product can be bought off the shelf, it does not need to be specially made or requested:
It's often cheaper if you buy wallpaper off the shelf, rather than having to order it.
The electronic components needed to make the sensors were easily available off the shelf.

Examples of shelf

shelf
Once elevated the palatal shelves fuse with the primary palate anteriorly and with each other more posteriorly.
Ledges and shelves were built-in to the walls, using planks arranged as vertical surfaces.
Notwithstanding any minor criticisms, this book will rightly find a place on the shelves of those interested in organic crop production.
Meanwhile, this volume will surely be a handy compendium on the reference shelves of all serious students of pension policy.
A few men decorated their rooms and built shelves, book-cases and coffee-tables from discarded wood.
I hope that both these volumes will find their way onto geology department library shelves.
Thus, refrigerator shelves are often covered with old newspapers to keep the refrigerator clean; for the same reasons the refrigerator contains as little as possible.
Close-up of steel shelves to support curtain of 27.
How often can we say that about the books on our shelves?
They started to talk and talk by the shelves.
Impact of storms on mixed carbonate and silicilastic shelves: insights from combined diffusive and fluid-flow transport stratigraphic forward model.
Doors, shelves and other internal joiner y expose the naked wood of two large trees which had both died.
The compound naeligshleo"um, used for a place where water monsters lie, could be envisaged as a headland with hollowed-out shelves.
What is most clear, however, is that music criticism plays a direct role in getting records onto store shelves.
In most cases, the number of items ordered by record shops are declared as sales figures, even if the musical product remains on the shelves.
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Collocations withshelf

shelf

These are words often used in combination with shelf.

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open shelf
This has led to a greater consistency of approach to the classification of openshelf material.
short shelf life
There can be no doubt that a bus service has a very shortshelf life.
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