shunt
verb (used with object)
to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Economist Michael Young predicts that by the end of the century, automation and technology will have shunted so much unskilled labor into the domestic market that a new Age of the Servant may dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
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