shakeup
(also shake-up) /ˈʃeɪkʌp/ noun [C]Definition
› a difficult period in which a company, industry, etc. is forced to change in order to be more successful: The industry is going through its largest shakeup for 40 years. Over 90 jobs were lost in the recent shakeup.
(Definition of shakeup noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Our dictionaries
Browse the Thesaurus
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
