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shakedown
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ No firearms were found during the shakedowns at the prison, but guards did recover several knives. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I am sitting on the edge of the shakedown bed I had hoped to sleep in. ▪ Instead, the legislators ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shakedown is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Joseph Pevney starring Howard Duff , Brian Donlevy , Peggy Dow , Lawrence Tierney , Bruce Bennett and Anne Vernon .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft n. 1 (context slang English) extortion, especially through blackmail 2 (context slang English) A thorough search; a frisk 3 A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft 4 An improvised bed.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a shakedown cruise" n. initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shakedown \Shake"down`\, n. A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. --Sir W. Scott.
Usage examples of shakedown.
Captain North had told Rockham that the Archerfish had undergone a complete shakedown cruise after her DOS modifications had been completed.
Taipei and Vancouver, Grandfather Choi still had that cold eye and that grim shakedown look.
The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.
Idly she wondered if Caleb Rustin might not have gone on to finish the Mark 5 that had been skeletal when she left on the shakedown cruise.
They're going to devote more energy to it, appoint a more important ambassador to Boaco Eight … there's going to be a general shakedown.
With lady cuiva safely on the shakedown cruise, the apg feels certain he can prove lady vescuya's duplicity.
It was in truth merely a log house with shakedowns, and stood across the rude road from his log farmhouse.
As a former security chief himself, Chekov had mentored Orsini throughout the shakedown cruise.