0 the activity of getting money from someone by threatening or tricking them
1 a careful search in order to find things that are stolen or illegal:
2 becoming organized after a period of change:
The new administration is still in the shakedown period.
4 an act of getting money from someone by using force or a trick:
5 the act of testing a new piece of equipment, especially a vehicle:
6 a period during which people become familiar with a new system or situation:
There is usually a period of shakedown with new technology.
7 a period during which prices are going down on a financial market:
They are predicting a shakedown at the upper end of the market.
The maiden voyage takes place after a successful shakedown.
Exercises and shakedown training occupied the remainder of 1953 and the first few months of 1954.
As such, problems detected during the shakedown cruise can be fixed at minimal cost.
A polished '60s shakedown succeeds the chant, which is backed by bouncing synthesizers and hard drums.
There, she conducted final acceptance trials and underwent post-shakedown overhaul.
Koenigsegg controls and uses the former military runway for shakedown runs of production cars and high speed testing.
Plastic shakedown behavior is one in which the steady state is a closed elastic-plastic loop, with no net accumulation of plastic deformation.
Following shakedown, the flush-decked destroyer remained on the west coast on temporary duty.
