Some borrowers have scaled back or shelved planned borrowing.
On the spines of books shelved in certain libraries and bookstores you will see OATES but this is a descriptive term, this is not a noun.
Two hundred miles east of Ashkhabad, where the soil shelved into ridges of scrub-speckled sand, a harsh wind sprang up.
The European Union shelved a programme that had obliged farmers to leave 10% of their land fallow; China scrapped a scheme that had allowed marginal arable to return to woodland.
A government notice of a rise in interest rates caused one bank's newly created advertising campaign to be shelved recently.
The project was shelved [hung up] because of lack of capital.
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