shake-up

noun

the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)

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a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum

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top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup

• Syn: ↑reorganization, ↑reorganisation, ↑shakeup

• Derivationally related forms: ↑shake up (for: ↑shakeup), ↑shake up, ↑reorganize (for: ↑reorganization)

• Hypernyms: ↑organization, ↑organisation

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n

reorganization, rearrangement, restructuring, disturbance, upheaval

COLLOQ. reshuffle

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▶ noun (informal) REORGANIZATION, restructuring, reshuffle, change, overhaul, makeover; upheaval; N. Amer. informal shakedown.

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun (-s)

Etymology: shake up

1. : makeshift; specifically : a hastily constructed building

2. : an act or instance of shaking up; specifically : an extensive and often drastic rearrangement or reorganization

is expected to result in personnel shake-ups in Soviet embassies — New York Times

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/shayk"up'/, n.

a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.

[1900-05; n. use of v. phrase shake up]

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shakeˈ-up noun (informal)

A disturbance or reorganization

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Main Entry: ↑shake

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shake-up UK US noun [countable] [singular shake-up plural shake-ups]

an important change in the way that something such as a department or a company is organized

Thesaurus: changes_synonym

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shake|up or shake-up «SHAYK _UHP», noun.

Informal. a sudden and complete change; drastic rearrangement, as of policy or personnel: »

The mayor resigned during a shakeup in the government. My nerves…got another shakeup—one which utterly unmanned me for a moment (Mark Twain).

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(also shakeup) n. informal a radical reorganization

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/ˈʃeıkˌʌp/ noun, pl -ups [count]

: an important change or series of changes in the way a company or other organization is organized or run

There has been a major shake-up in the company.

a management shake-up

— see also shake up at ↑shake, 1

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ˈshake-up [shake-up shake-ups] (also ˈshake-out) noun \shake-up (in/of sth)

a situation in which a lot of changes are made to a company, an organization, etc. in order to improve the way in which it works

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a management shake-up

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Union leaders are calling for a major shake-up of the system.

See also: ↑shake-out  

Example Bank:

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Police forces face the biggest shake-up in their 150-year history.

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The headline read ‘Local council plans shake-up’.

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The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the health-care system.

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The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.

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This case could lead to a shake-up of the prison system.

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a major shake-up at the company

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a radical shake-up in the chemical industry

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the posts that were scrapped in the recent shake-up

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What the industry needs is a good shake-up.

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shake-up

see shake n.¹ 8.