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Shakedown   /ʃˈeɪkdˌaʊn/   Listen
Shakedown

adjective
1.
Intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system.





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"Shakedown" Quotes from Famous Books



... ain't lookin' for Vanderbilt or God Almighty up here, are you? Well, then, you hark to me, will you? You say to my old woman to give you supper and a shakedown somewhar to-night. Say I ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... when tired for the day, In this hole made his bed, on a shakedown of hay. Our hills, long despised, he was pleased to explore, And we thank him ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough
... remaining one for himself. Each bed, as is common in Germany and northern France, was provided with a feather tick, but the night being warm, these spreads were thrown off, and discovering that they would make a comfortable shakedown on the floor, I slept there leaving Bismarck-Bohlen unembarrassed by companionship—at least of a ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan


Words linked to "Shakedown" :   jargon, hunt, extortion, search, lingo, slang, vernacular, argot, fitting, accommodation, adjustment, patois, hunting, cant


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