shakeout
pronunciation
How to pronounce shakeout in British English:
UK ['ʃeɪkˌaʊt]
How to pronounce shakeout in American English:
US ['ʃeɪkˌaʊt]
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- Noun:
- a financial condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry
Word Origin
- shakeout (n.)
- also shake-out, "business upheaval," 1895, from verbal phrase; see shake (v.) + out (adv.).
Example
- 1. Analysts have forecast a shakeout in the crowded chinese auto market for years .
- 2. Such congestion will lead to a shakeout , with the strongest and best-organised companies winning .
- 3. He expects a shakeout among social-networking sites if advertising spending falters , though the strongest will survive .
- 4. The shakeout of the $ 1.7tn industry , which is still pulling billions away from traditional mutual funds , is solidly under way .
- 5. Ms he also said that the moratorium on new plants would help prevent " vicious competition " between existing companies trying to survive an industry shakeout .