shakedown
IPA: ʃˈeɪkdaʊn
noun
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft
- An improvised bed.
adjective
- that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft
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Examples of "shakedown" in Sentences
- The Case of The Super Shakedown.
- The shakedown was also the same.
- After a good shakedown of course.
- See second paragraph use of shakedown.
- Tragedy marred the carrier's shakedown.
- And you wonder why there was a CIA shakedown.
- She spent the remainder of 1971 on shakedown.
- A shakedown for a ship is generally referred to as a sea trial.
- Grenadier proved the worth of this device during her shakedown.
- The Shakedown was also the same as the last few editions of the rally.
- But the point of Barton's comment -- the idea that the BP escrow fund represents a "shakedown" -- is not being dismissed.
- The first was our previously announced shutdown in April to do what we call a shakedown analysis of our new sevoflurane line.
- CORNISH: And later, he would issue a second retraction, saying his use of the word shakedown had been wrong, and apologizing for that, too.
- Folks who waxed poetic about the virtues of Federalism and how it works in the Senate must think this sort of shakedown is what the founders intended.
- There is a second definition of the term "shakedown" in the dictionary, which I never saw until I decided to try to figure out what the Republican representative could mean.
- I have to confess, I don't know of any definition of the word "shakedown" that fits, in with the esteemed representative offering money before and after going there being a victim.
- "Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House" shakedown "-- after leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves."
- Although Barton later retracted his suggestion that BP was the victim of a White House "shakedown" -- after House GOP leaders threatened to take away his position as ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the episode showed the uncomfortable spot in which some Republicans find themselves.
- On Thursday afternoon, Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton issued an apology for telling BP CEO Tony Hayword that the Obama administration's actions to hold the oil giant accountable in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil spill was a "shakedown" -- a characterization that sparked a firestorm of criticism from Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike.