shake-up
noun/ˈʃeɪk ʌp/
/ˈʃeɪk ʌp/
(also shake-out)
- shake-up (in/of something) a situation in which a lot of changes are made to a company, an organization, etc. in order to improve the way in which it works
- a management shake-up
- Union leaders are calling for a major shake-up of the system.
Extra Examples- What the industry needs is a good shake-up.
- Police forces face the biggest shake-up in their 150-year history.
- The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the health-care system.
- Several posts were scrapped in the recent shake-up.
- a radical shake-up in the chemical industry
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- major
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- need
- call for
- plan
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- in a/the shake-up
- shake-up at
- shake-up in
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