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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shakeup
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sweeping shakeup in the company's middle management
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An Apple Computer spokeswoman and other sources confirmed the shakeup at the vice president level.
▪ The announcement was made just days after Chung Mong Koo became chairman in a group management shakeup.
Wiktionary
shakeup

alt. A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization. n. A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.

WordNet
shakeup

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, shake-up]

Usage examples of "shakeup".

None of the Big Shakeups had ever made sense, but damn-all anybody could do if the Earth Company got behind it.

The police shakeup would be ac­celerated, drug traffic would be restricted almost as severely as it had been before the liberalisations of the 1980s, an early-warning system would be put into effect to head off civic disturbances involving more than two dozen peopole, et cetera, et cetera.