Definition of Shakeout

1. Noun. An economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry. "They glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors"

Generic synonyms: Economic Condition

Definition of Shakeout

1. Noun. An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated. ¹

2. Noun. (engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shakeout

1. a minor economic recession [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakeout

shakeable
shaked
shakedown
shakedowns
shakefork
shakeforks
shakehole
shakeholes
shakemap
shakemaps
shaken
shaken baby syndrome
shaken one's head
shaken out
shakenness
shakeout (current term)
shakeouts
shaker-upper
shaker-uppers
shakerato
shakeratos
shakeress
shakes
shakes one's head
shakes out
shaketh
shakeup
shakeups
shakey
shakhovite

Literary usage of Shakeout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy by Clas-Otto Wene, International Energy Agency (2000)
"The market enters the shakeout phase when prices fall faster than cost The ... The shakeout progress ratios are not sustainable, however, because they would ..."

2. Urban Change and Poverty by Michael G. H. McGeary, Laurence E. Lynn (1988)
"period of the heaviest industrial shakeout in the Mideast region. The Great Lakes region and, to a lesser extent, the Plains region were the last of the ..."

3. Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Baseby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Indeed, a shakeout resulting in fewer suppliers, each receiving a larger share of the available business, might be a healthy adaptation to the post-Cold War ..."

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