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shakedown

[sheyk-doun] / ˈʃeɪkˌdaʊn /
NOUN
extortion
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NOUN
investigation
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Aston Martin also missed almost two full days of last month's Barcelona shakedown.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Apparently, the easiest shakedown targets are single people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

It strikes me that there’s a parallel to his shakedown of the law firms.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2025

The car is doing a brief shakedown test in Bahrain on Tuesday before the official F1 pre-season test at the track starts on Wednesday at 07:00 GMT.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025

Lawrence could afford to scoff at suggestions that the cyclotron was still in its shakedown stage.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik