shake-upnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈʃeɪk.ʌp/us/ˈʃeɪk.ʌp/a large change in the way something is organized:
The company is undergoing a radical shake-up.
The arrival of the new baby caused a thorough shake-up of their family life.
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- sea change
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- transfigure
- twist
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