Usually means: Elimination of weaker competitors economically.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. shakeout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shakeout: Merriam-Webster
  3. shakeout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shakeout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shakeout: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shakeout, shakeout: Wordnik
  7. shakeout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shakeout: Wiktionary
  9. shakeout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shakeout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shakeout: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shakeout: Dictionary.com
  13. Shakeout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shakeout: Rhymezone
  15. shakeout: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shakeout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shakeout: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Shakeout: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. shakeout: Glossary of research economics
  5. Shakeout: Investopedia
  6. shakeout: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shakeout: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shakeout)

noun:  An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.
noun:  (engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.
noun:  The shaking of an object to spread it wide and eject any debris.
noun:  (sports) The shaking of one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.

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