Shakeout Definition

shākout

shake-out

noun

Any movement in the market prices of securities that forces speculators to sell their holdings.

Webster's New World

Any drop in economic activity that eliminates marginal or unprofitable businesses, products, etc.

Webster's New World

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.

Wiktionary

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

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Other Word Forms of Shakeout

Singular:

shakeout

Plural:

shakeouts

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