shuttle

shut|tle /ʃ'ʌtəl/ (shuttles shuttling shuttled)
1 [N-COUNT]
A shuttle is the same as a space shuttle.
2 [N-COUNT] oft N n
A shuttle is a plane, bus, or train which makes frequent journeys between two places.
...shuttle flights between London and Manchester.
3 [VERB] V prep/adv, be V-ed prep/adv
If someone or something shuttles or is shuttled from one place to another place, they frequently go from one place to the other.
He and colleagues have shuttled back and forth between the three capitals...
Machine parts were also being shuttled across the border without authorisation.shut|tle di|plo|ma|cy
[N-UNCOUNT]
Shuttle diplomacy is the movement of diplomats between countries whose leaders refuse to talk directly to each other, in order to try to settle the argument between them.
UN mediators are conducting shuttle diplomacy between the two sides.space shut|tle (space shuttles)
[N-COUNT]
A space shuttle or a shuttle is a spacecraft that is designed to travel into space and back to earth several times.

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