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shakedowns

 
Noun shakedown has 3 senses
  1. shakedown - initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown"
    --1 is a kind of
    adjustment, accommodation, fitting
  2. shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
    --2 is a kind of
    search, hunt, hunting
  3. shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
    --3 is a kind of
    extortion
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