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shaykdown

  • n  initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
    the new industry's economic shakedown
  • n  a very thorough search of a person or a place
    a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs
  • n  extortion of money (as by blackmail)
  • a  intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
    a shakedown cruise

  • THE TRANSITION Shakedown Cruise for the Carter Crew It was a kind of shakedown cruiseshakier at times, perhaps, than Jimmy Carter might have wished.
  • In Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise.
  • Having plowed through no less than 60 industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise.
News & Articles

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    Infamous for their emphasis on “Booze, Bikes, Bands, Broads, and Rods,” The ShakeDown Bar on Midway is changing hands about two-and-a-half years into its Loma Portal legacy.
    June 12, 2013 - San Diego Reader
  • AT&T's GoPhone prepaid service to undergo major changes, kill data options
    AT&T's GoPhone plans are undergoing a major shakedown, and you'll get a preliminary taste on June 20th once existing data packages are given the axe. Smartphone users who want internet access on GoPhone's $25 or $50 plans currently have the option to purchase a 50MB data add-on per month for $5, a 200MB add-on for $15 or a 1GB add-on for $25. Only the $5 option will remain once the changes hit ...
    June 7, 2013 - Engadget
  • Shakedown Street is coming to village
    For one weekend only, the Chestnut Street parking lot will be known as Shakedown Street. The open-air market famous at Grateful Dead shows is expected come to Cooperstown on July 13 and 14 for the Furthur concert at Doubleday Field on Sunday, July 14. Furthur is the Grateful Dead legacy band that features original Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.
    June 6, 2013 - The Cooperstown Crier
Quotes

  • Joe Barton in CNN
    I apologize for using the term 'shakedown' ...... and I retract my apology to BP,he said in the written statement. "BP should bear the full financial responsibility for the accident on their lease in the Gulf of Mexico. BP should fully...
  • Bart Stupak in Salon
    I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is -- again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown,the Texan said. "So...
  • Joe Biden in Vancouver Sun
    I find it incredibly insensitive, incredibly out of touch,Biden said. "There's no shakedown. It's insisting on responsible conduct and a responsible response to something [BP] caused."

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