shake-outn.

1895 Daily 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.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 10/1 All traces of last week's Rubber ‘shake out’ have vanished.

1928 Sun (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.

1981 Times 14 Aug. 18/3 Properties came in for a small shake out with Stock Conversion a weak market 10p lower at 370p.

1939 Times 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.

1956 Sun (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’.

1957 Time 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.

1963 Listener 21 Feb. 319/2 Public-house gossip is perhaps most busy about the need for a shake-out of the party system.

1964 Financial 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.

1967 Listener 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.

1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 39 Successive recessions and mechanization have meant a ‘shake-out’ of labour in traditionally labour-intensive industries.

1981 Economist 28 Nov. 26/1 Workers left in droves, because they were laid off. The worst of that shake-out is over.