shakeout

Other forms: shakeouts

Definitions of shakeout
  1. noun
    an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry
    “they glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors”
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    type of:
    economic condition
    the condition of the economy
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