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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

... her eyes wide open. Her face was white around the corners of the mouth and at the edges of her nose. The whiteness of the flesh under the deep tan gave her a completely frightened look, far more than the shake-up ...

— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith

... the show has got to have a railroad wreck every season, and all hands lay awake nights on the cars to brace themselves for the shock. Sometimes it comes early in the season, and again a show goes along until almost the end of the season without a shake-up, and fellows think maybe there is not going to be any wreck, but the engineers are only waiting till everybody has forgotten about it, and then, biff, bang, and they have run into another train, or been run into, and you have to be pulled out of a window ...

— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck

Words linked to "Shake-up" : shake up, organisation, organization, reorganisation