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Shakedown

noun

Initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state.

A very thorough search of a person or a place.

Extortion of money (as by blackmail).

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"Shakedown" Quotes from Famous Books

... out-of-the-way suburb that it would be quite impossible for him to go home to sleep. I was only too delighted to be of service to him. Although I could not offer him a bed, it would be easy to improvise a shakedown on which he could have a few hours' rest. I set to work at once, and did the best I could for him, using a bundle of rags for the pillows, and my old dressing-gown for the mattress. When Balder saw it, he declared that nothing could be more ...

— The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

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