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shuttle someone or something from (person to person)

 and shuttle someone or something from place to place

(Specific persons or places are sometimes expressed.) to move or pass someone or something from person to person; to move or pass someone or something from place to place. My phone call was shuttled from person to person. Mary shuttled her children from home to school to practice.

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shuttle diplomacy

an attempt to make peace between two groups of people who refuse to meet and talk to each other by meeting both groups separately and travelling between them The shuttle diplomacy continues this week as ambassadors fly to Paris for more talks with the French.

See also: diplomacy, shuttle