"shunting engine" meaning in English

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      "form": "shunting engines",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99",
          "text": "Seven shunting engines are employed in Euston sidings and are responsible for the transfer trips.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A locomotive that carries out shunting duties."
      ],
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        [
          "rail transport",
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        [
          "locomotive",
          "locomotive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) A locomotive that carries out shunting duties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shunter"
        },
        {
          "word": "switcher"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shunting engine"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shunting engines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "shunting engine (plural shunting engines)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Rail transportation"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99",
          "text": "Seven shunting engines are employed in Euston sidings and are responsible for the transfer trips.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A locomotive that carries out shunting duties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "locomotive",
          "locomotive"
        ]
      ],
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        "(rail transport, UK) A locomotive that carries out shunting duties."
      ],
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      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "shunter"
    },
    {
      "word": "switcher"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shunting engine"
}