nnoun.eventinitial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory stateExamples:- the new industry's economic shakedown
Hypernyms:accommodation adjustment fitting
Inherited Hypernyms:shakedownadjustmentimprovementtransformationchangehappeningeventpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.acta very thorough search of a person or a placeDomain Usage:argotcantjargonlingopatoisslangvernacular
Examples:- a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs
Hypernyms:hunt hunting search
Inherited Hypernyms:shakedownsearchactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.actextortion of money (as by blackmail)Domain Usage:argotcantjargonlingopatoisslangvernacular
Hypernyms:extortion
Inherited Hypernyms:shakedownextortionfelonycrimeoffensetransgressionwrongdoingactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
adjadj.pertintended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the systemPertainyms:shakedown
Inherited Hypernyms:shakedown