Usually means: Clarify or explain something further.
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  1. shed light on: Merriam-Webster
  2. shed light on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shed light on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shed light on: Vocabulary.com
  5. shed light on: Wiktionary
  6. shed light on: Dictionary.com
  7. shed light on: Rhymezone
  8. shed light on: FreeDictionary.org
  9. shed light on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. shed light on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shed light on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shed light on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shed light on: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shed light on: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (shed light on)

verb:  (transitive, also figurative) To illuminate; to make clear.

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