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Shakedown meaning
Extortion, especially through blackmail | A thorough search; a frisk | A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
Synonyms of Shakedown
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If this was in the private sector, this would be called a shakedown, or a shakedown by organized crime,” said Assemblyman Hal Wirths, R-Sussex.
However, the new design was spotted at Silverstone in a shakedown event last week.
Other than that, this is a shakedown of the mentally ill and those with historic guilt.
Sharpton has used what Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia, a corporate watchdog, said was “quite clearly a shakedown operation” to secure corporate funding for NAN.
The pair have already been on their shakedown runs, ahead of the event stages starting Thursday evening, placing second overall.
The sidecar shakedown will follow at 2pm before the RL360 Superstock Race at 2:45pm.
Charles Leclerc claims he got a better feeling from his first few shakedown laps in the SF-24 than he did in last year's F1 car.
Horner was at Red Bull’s secret shakedown event at Silverstone on Tuesday.
At Shakedown, too, Weinraub was not an interloper: she was part of that world, and proud of it.
In parallel, the IMF vulture would embark on full shakedown mode and finally “forgive” some of Beirut’s debts as long as a harsh variation of “structural adjustment” is imposed.
That could be considered a shakedown, perhaps even prosecuted as extortion.
The rough transcript makes no mention of Perry's gas agenda, but in the wake of the presidential shakedown, Perry pressed ahead.
A shakedown at the Escambia County (AL) Detention Center in Brewton turned up a long list of contraband.
It appears menthol cigarettes were caught up as the vice-to-be-named later in Tall Deval’s recent vaping shakedown.
Local organizations like Shakedown Street and The Old Goat provide donations, as do name organizations around the state such as the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons, according to Harris.
However, the Turkish President seemed to keep the hope alive that the Saudis will eventually meet his shakedown demands by not making public all of his secretly collected evidence.
Mayor denies campaign cash shakedown during.
On the one hand, I can easily believe there was a shakedown going on.
Sometimes this is combined with the shakedown or even the maiden voyage.
The test, known as Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO) 28, took place in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California March 26.