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UK
/ʃˈeɪkdaʊn/
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[ US /ˈʃeɪkˌdaʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈʃeɪkˌdaʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
a shakedown cruise
NOUN
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a very thorough search of a person or a place
a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs -
initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
the new industry's economic shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
How To Use shakedown In A Sentence
- Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
- This was only a shakedown cruise which might pay the added dividends of dislocating our shipping and drawing off our patrols. THE LONELY SEA
- The goons, the oilmen, the shakedown and the cover-up.
- Instead, the legislators flee accountability and hide behind a private agreement, asking merely to be let in on the shakedown.
- The new administration is still in the shakedown period.
- But the point of Barton's comment -- the idea that the BP escrow fund represents a "shakedown" -- is not being dismissed. GOP candidates echo Barton on BP 'shakedown'
- Was there a similar shakedown then of the just plain stupid ideas as we are experiencing now?
- As we frolic our way through Week Three, keep these helpful tips in mind; they'll get you through the madness before the shakedown.
- It didn't flex at all during a shakedown test and it had an overall sturdy feeling that is hard to describe.
- I'll send some people over tomorrow, check for prints, do a shakedown. OFF THE CHART
