- shakedown - initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown"
--1 is a kind of adjustment, accommodation, fitting
- shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
--2 is a kind of search, hunt, hunting
- shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
--3 is a kind of extortion
- shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"