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ˈshake-out
[f. vbl. phr. to shake out: see shake v. 20.]
1. Stock Exchange. A crisis in which the weaker speculators are driven out of the market. Also, a sudden fall in prices, a sudden general disposal of particular stocks, etc.
1895Daily News 23 Jan. 2/2 The ‘shake-out’ in speculative accounts..has strengthened the Stock markets... The recent ‘shake out’ of weak holders, referred to above. 1910Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 10/1 All traces of last week's Rubber ‘shake out’ have vanished. 1928Sun (Baltimore) 7 Dec. 1/3 Measured by the Associated Press averages of twenty leading industrials and twenty leading rails, which dropped $9.45 and $4.38, respectively, it was one of the quickest and most drastic shakeouts in recent market history. 1981Times 14 Aug. 18/3 Properties came in for a small shake out with Stock Conversion a weak market 10p lower at 370p.
2. An upheaval or reorganization, esp. one involving contraction, streamlining, shedding of personnel, closure of some businesses, etc.
1939Times 9 Mar. 8/1 There had been what was sometimes called a ‘shake-out’ in the film industry during the past year. A number of those elements which did not raise the repute of the film industry had been removed. 1956Sun (Baltimore) 20 Jan. 13/1 New claims for jobless pay increased about 20 per cent in Maryland last week under the impetus of the usual year-end economic ‘shake out’. 1957Time 2 Sept. 59/1 In downtown Washington, D.C., eight, or about half, of the city's big discount houses went out of business in the past year. The shake⁓out is almost as severe in Los Angeles, Boston and Dallas. 1963Listener 21 Feb. 319/2 Public-house gossip is perhaps most busy about the need for a shake-out of the party system. 1964Financial Times 3 Mar. 12/7 A shake-out in the business world, with pressure on profits and profit margins forcing the inefficient producer, or..retailer, out of business or into efficiency. 1967Listener 19 Jan. 80/3 A nation-wide witch-hunt and counterbalancing resistance movement which could well make the upheaval of the past year [in China] seem like the mildest of shake⁓outs. 1974Howard Jrnl. XIV. 39 Successive recessions and mechanization have meant a ‘shake-out’ of labour in traditionally labour-intensive industries. 1981Economist 28 Nov. 26/1 Workers left in droves, because they were laid off. The worst of that shake-out is over. |