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Definition of Shake-up
1. Noun. The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes). "Top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
Generic synonyms: Organisation, Organization
Derivative terms: Reorganize, Reorganize, Shake Up, Shake Up
Definition of Shake-up
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of shakeup) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shake-up
Literary usage of Shake-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Shake up (American), to obtain, get, procure. As if one had got game by shaking
up or beating the bushes or coverts. I never saw such magnificent weather ..."
2. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States by Murat Halstead (1902)
"... on Dangerous Obedience to Orders—His Two Years' Old Opinion Was Sampson Was
in Command—There Is a Shake Up—A "Historian" Ordered Not to Labor Any More, ..."
3. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"... to shake up and down, as a person his finger, or a dog its tail, ... to shake
up and down, so as to remove bran, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... shake up: see succuss.] 1. The act of shaking.—2. A shaking ; a violent shock.
If the trunk is the principal seat of lesion, as . . . from violent ..."
5. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"to tremble with cold or fever ; ruru, to shake, to shake up; to move, to stir,
to rouse; ru- raga, impatience, eagerness. ..."
6. Plumbing and Household Sanitation by John Pickering Putnam (1911)
"\Ye cannot violently shake up the trap on a fixture as we do a detached bottle,
and a current of water powerful enough to shake up the shot or ball without ..."
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