shunter

English

Etymology

shunt +‎ -er

Noun

shunter (plural shunters)

(rail transport, British) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher.
- 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
  Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
(rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.
- 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
  The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
(finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

Synonyms

(locomotive): switcher (US), shunting engine (UK)

Derived terms

mutton shunter

Translations

a railway locomotive used for shunting

Bulgarian: маневрен локомотив (manevren lokomotiv)
Czech: posunovací lokomotiva f
Finnish: järjestelyveturi
French: locotracteur (fr) m
German: Rangierlokomotive f
Hungarian: tolatómozdony (hu)
Portuguese: locotrator (Portugal), locomotiva manobreira f
Romanian: locotractor (ro) m
Ukrainian: маневровий локомотив m (manevrovyj lokomotyv)

a person who carries out shunting operations

Bulgarian: стрелочник m (streločnik)
Czech: posunovač m
German: Verschiebedienstmitarbeiter m, Rangierdienstmitarbeiter m

Anagrams

hunters, nurseth, reshunt

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

shunter

(electrics) to shunt

Conjugation

Conjugation of shunter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	shunter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	shuntant /ʃœ̃.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		shunté /ʃœ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	shunte /ʃœ̃t/	shuntes /ʃœ̃t/	shunte /ʃœ̃t/	shuntons /ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/	shuntez /ʃœ̃.te/	shuntent /ʃœ̃t/
	imperfect	shuntais /ʃœ̃.tɛ/	shuntais /ʃœ̃.tɛ/	shuntait /ʃœ̃.tɛ/	shuntions /ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/	shuntiez /ʃœ̃.tje/	shuntaient /ʃœ̃.tɛ/
	past historic²	shuntai /ʃœ̃.te/	shuntas /ʃœ̃.ta/	shunta /ʃœ̃.ta/	shuntâmes /ʃœ̃.tam/	shuntâtes /ʃœ̃.tat/	shuntèrent /ʃœ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	shunterai /ʃœ̃.tʁe/	shunteras /ʃœ̃.tʁa/	shuntera /ʃœ̃.tʁa/	shunterons /ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/	shunterez /ʃœ̃.tʁe/	shunteront /ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	shunterais /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/	shunterais /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/	shunterait /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/	shunterions /ʃœ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	shunteriez /ʃœ̃.tə.ʁje/	shunteraient /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	shunte /ʃœ̃t/	shuntes /ʃœ̃t/	shunte /ʃœ̃t/	shuntions /ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/	shuntiez /ʃœ̃.tje/	shuntent /ʃœ̃t/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	shuntasse /ʃœ̃.tas/	shuntasses /ʃœ̃.tas/	shuntât /ʃœ̃.ta/	shuntassions /ʃœ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	shuntassiez /ʃœ̃.ta.sje/	shuntassent /ʃœ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	shunte /ʃœ̃t/	—	shuntons /ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/	shuntez /ʃœ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).