SHAKEOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shakeout mean? 

• SHAKEOUT (noun)
  The noun SHAKEOUT has 1 sense:

1. an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry

  Familiarity information: SHAKEOUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAKEOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

they glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors

Hypernyms ("shakeout" is a kind of...):

economic condition (the condition of the economy)