1. Initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
   "the new industry's economic shakedown"
    
2. A very thorough search of a person or a place
   "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
    
3. Extortion of money (as by blackmail)
   "The corrupt official's shakedown of local businesses was finally exposed"

1. Intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
   "a shakedown cruise"

Derived forms: shakedowns

Type of: accommodation, adjustment, extortion, fitting, hunt, hunting, search

Encyclopedia: Shakedown