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Shakedown
//ˈʃeɪkdaʊn// adj, noun, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft
Adjective
- 1 intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system wordnet
Noun
- 1 Extortion, especially through blackmail slang
"What is this, a shakedown?"
- 2 extortion of money (as by blackmail) wordnet
- 3 A thorough search; a frisk slang
- 4 a very thorough search of a person or a place wordnet
- 5 A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
"It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November."
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- 6 initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state wordnet
- 7 An improvised bed.
"All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Deverbal from shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.
Etymology 2
Deverbal from shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.
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