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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry;
- Example: "they glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shakeout
    n 1: an economic condition that results in the elimination of
         marginally financed participants in an industry; "they
         glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their
         competitors"