Shakedown - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈʃeɪkdaʊn|
Brit.
|ˈʃeɪkdaʊn|
noun
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
the new industry's economic shakedown
- a very thorough search of a person or a placea shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)adjective
- intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
a shakedown cruise
Extra examples
He was the victim of a shakedown by a street gang.
The guards conducted a shakedown of the prisoners' cells to look for weapons.
They're putting the system through a shakedown.
The new Administration is still in the shakedown period.
Word forms
noun
singular: shakedown
plural: shakedowns
singular: shakedown
plural: shakedowns
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