Similar words: shake up, shakeup, make-up, takeup, make up, take up, wake up, makeup. Meaning: n. the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) shake up. v. 1. shock physically 2. organize anew 3. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) 4. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of 5. change the arrangement or position of 6. make fuller by shaking.
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1 The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
2 The shake-up aims to recast IBM as a federation of flexible and competing sub-sidiaries.
3 The headline read "Local council plans shake-up".
4 My job did not survive the shake-up.
5 The company is undergoing a radical shake-up.
6 Union leaders are calling for a major shake-up of the system.
7 Police forces face the biggest shake-up in their 150-year history.
8 The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education.
9 A productivity shake-up appears to be taking place that could boost the economy in the 1990s.
10 A shake-up in key leadership posts and waning popular support could prevent Mr. Putin's administration from carrying out overdue economic reforms or exercising fiscal discipline, some observers said.
11 The shake-up would involve ending the arbitrary system which expects pupils to reach academic levels by the end of a "key stage" at school.
12 Citi yesterday unveiled a further shake-up of its capital markets operation.
13 The Prime Minister's speech today signals that there will be a shake-up in the cabinet.
14 The only thing that will save the company is a thorough shake-up of the way it is run.
15 The arrival of the new baby caused a thorough shake-up of their family life.
16 He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.
17 At the moment 18 of the 24 OECD countries are either planning or implementing a major shake-up.
18 Systems topple, statues walk, long-serving political incumbents take a hike in a huge global shake-up.
19 Unlike his predecessor, Bienvenu managed to survive his own spy scandal and its ensuing shake-up.
20 Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up.
21 But the research underlines the urgent need for a more radical shake-up of student support.
22 Hale was ousted from the company's main board in a big management shake-up.
23 In south Glasgow, two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde.
24 But the beginning of a second term is a perfect time for a rejuvenating administration shake-up.
25 Taken together, the government describes these changes as "the biggest shake-up of the Malaysian system since independence from Britain in 1957".
26 Dan Loeb, whose hedge fund, Third Point LLC, is one of Yahoo's largest shareholders, called for a board shake-up last month.
27 Energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne announced four reforms which, he claimed,(www.Sentencedict.com) represent the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy market for the past 25 years.
28 Objective:To summarize the use and nursing experience of peripheral artery and vein therapy shake-up in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia to guide clinical work.
29 Mr Johnson said writers such as George Eliot and Alexander Pope were " untouchable" in a curriculum shake-up.
30 With a sense of panic setting in across Hollywood, the industry has, in the past three months, seen the biggest shake-up of studio chiefs in 25 years.
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