Definitions for shake-up

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Spelling: [sheyk-uhp]
IPA: /ˈʃeɪkˌʌp/

Shake-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in shake-up (-aehkpsu).

Definitions for shake-up

noun

  1. a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.

Origin of shake-up

First recorded in 1900-05; noun use of verb phrase shake up

Examples for shake-up

Nick Summers talks to Beckman and his staffers about the shake-up.

The request for her resignation from the other team had not specially troubled Robin, knowing that a shake-up was imminent.

Bird attributes the sound to a shake-up in his recording process.

Rather a shake-up, though, and I was dizzy with the heat before.

"It can't be quite the same after so universal a shake-up," I objected.

It seemed as if the shake-up at Plympton had shaken all the nonsense out of Lemuel Fogg.

"There's been a shake-up in our combination," he remarked casually to Fyfe.

He even foreshadowed his plans for a shake-up during a conference call with media reporters back in November.

There had indeed been a “shake-up” on the nine the day of the game.

Every shake-up we have somebody wants to fire him, or pension him off.

Word Value for shake-up
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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