SHAKEOUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

economic condition (the condition of the economy)

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