Definitions for shake up
shake up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeupverb

   the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)

   "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

2. jar, shake up, bump aroundverb

   shock physically

   "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"

3. reorganize, reorganise, shake upverb

   organize anew

   "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"

4. succuss, shake upverb

   shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)

5. stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb

   stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

   "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

6. agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise upverb

   change the arrangement or position of

7. fluff up, plump up, shake upverb

   make fuller by shaking

   "fluff up the pillows"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shake upverb

   To agitate by shaking.

2. shake upverb

   To reorganize, to make reforms in.

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1. shake up

   A shake up generally refers to a drastic reorganization or restructuring of a system, organization or group. It usually involves significant changes like job cuts, division merges or alterations in the chain of command in order to improve efficiency, productivity or outcomes. It can also be used metaphorically in other contexts to denote a significant change or disturbance in normal routine or situation.

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Move
   • Shake

How to pronounce shake up?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shake up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shake up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of shake up in a Sentence

1. Lee Weiss:

   An ongoing trend we've seen throughout the past few admissions cycles is the shift towards a two-test landscape, and what's interesting is that even as some of the changes to the SAT make it more ACT-like, more students are taking both tests or considering the ACT option, students have been recognizing that they have more than one test option, and the shake-up caused by the SAT redesign has furthered this recognition.

2. Patrick Morrisey:

   This is a President that wants to shake up Washington, washington is completely broken and you need someone who is willing to go and fix it.

3. Christopher Trzaska:

   You could drop me in the Bush administration, and I'd feel right at home, gen Z and many conservatives of my age are looking for someone to shake up the system, but not to burn the country down in the process.

4. Mats Wilander:

   I think (the seeds going out) it's way more positive than negative for women's tennis, i hope that men's tennis goes that way where we see more upsets. It's great to follow Federer and Nadal, but I think 16 seeds would shake up the men's draw.

5. Michel Foucault:

   The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shake up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shake_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
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