Meaning

4 senses
  1. An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.

    The dot-com shakeout of the 1990s left only the most durable, most profitable, and most well backed companies surviving.

    Bereinigungsprozess, Bereinigung, Gesundschrumpfung

  2. The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.

  3. The shaking of an object to spread it wide and eject any debris.

  4. The shaking of one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.

More definitions
  • an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry

Translations

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By meaning 1
event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated:

Origin

From shake + out.

From shake + out.

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Forms

plural: shakeouts
Singularshakeout
Pluralshakeouts

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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