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Dictionary Results for shakedown:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

shakedown
    adj 1: intended to test a new system under operating conditions
           and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a
           shakedown cruise"
    n 1: initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the
         efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the
         new industry's economic shakedown"
    2: a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown
       by the police uncovered the drugs"
    3: extortion of money (as by blackmail)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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