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nouna very thorough search of a person or a place
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nounextortion of money (as by blackmail)type of:
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nouninitial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory statetype of:
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Examples of shakedown
- "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
- "the new industry's economic shakedown"
- "a shakedown cruise"