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Shake-up

noun

The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes). Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shakeup. "Top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

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"Shake-up" Quotes from Famous Books

... away on the bluff has dried up. The damage to the mill and machinery will probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock beneath. A panic occurred among the mill operatives at the time of the shake-up, but nobody was hurt in the stampede from the mill.—Boston Transcript, ...

— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various

... weeks later that a serious shake-up occurred in the office force, of which no one seemed to know the cause. There was a mad scramble for advancement all along the line, in which Kirk took no part. But unexpectedly Runnels summoned him ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach

... Bud. Your thanks will be just what you make of this work when I leave. There has been a big shake-up in the Service. Some of us ...

— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert