Crossword clues for shake-up
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of shakeup English)
WordNet
n. the act of imposing a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup" [syn: reorganization, reorganisation, shakeup]
Usage examples of "shake-up".
He found out from the newsie that there had been a shake-up in the numbers business, that City Hall was more deeply involved now and was taking a bigger piece for protection.
Picton eventually emerged with SherÂiff Dunning, the lawman looked so rattled and confused that it was easy to tell that the town of Ballston Spa, which had spent the morning being so confused and hostile, was about to get a shake-up what would magnify those feelings many times over.
Still rattled from the adventure and the subsequent shake-up, it didn't want anything as heavy as comfort food.
We had breakfast of Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies and warm Ovaltine we drank out of this years Little Orphan Annie Shake-Up Mugs.
Those mass market publications that have survived the post-TV shake-up have done so, in part, by turning themselves into a collection of regional and segmentalized editions.
It was a more brutal sort of power than the clashes of influence that formed the usual government shake-ups, but it was there.
The Feds are really worried about freelancers taking advantage of the shake-ups in the E.
True to the Lord Chancellor's fearless and totally misguided shake-up of the Bar, Mr Bernard was encouraged to represent Ben Baker before the South London stipendiary magistrate, a small, pinkish, self-important, failed barrister of mediocre intelligence.