SHAKEDOWN


Meaning of SHAKEDOWN in English

noun Date: circa 1730 an improvised bed (as one made up on the floor), a boisterous dance, an act or instance of shaking someone down, a thorough search, a process or period of adjustment, a testing under operating conditions of something new (as a ship) for possible faults and defects and for familiarizing the operators with it

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