SHAKEOUT

shakeout

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

shakeout (plural shakeouts)

An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.

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

The shaking of an object to spread it wide and eject any debris.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

28 April 2024

POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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