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Definition of the day : « shakedown »

  • noun extortion
  • noun investigation
Example sentences :
  • I'll come in later, and if they'll make me a shakedown, I'll stay with you to-night.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • We'll scare you up a shakedown to sleep on and you're welcome as welcome.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • You and I are to sleep here, Mary,” she said, “and Peter is to have a shakedown in the sitting-room.
  • Extract from : « Peter Trawl » by W. H. G. Kingston
  • I assure you, my dear friends, it's a shakedown fit for a prince!
  • Extract from : « Willy Reilly » by William Carleton
  • "He said he'd beg a shakedown at your house, Violet," George interrupted.
  • Extract from : « Sonia Married » by Stephen McKenna
  • He walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown.
  • Extract from : « The Syndic » by C.M. Kornbluth
  • This money is yours—and you will have a shakedown for the night—only on condition that you stick to what you've said.
  • Extract from : « Dead Man's Love » by Tom Gallon
  • There was to be a cruiser waiting at Bremerton for a shakedown cruise.
  • Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred
  • The accommodation a shakedown on some planks, and breakfast in the morning.
  • Extract from : « Rambling Recollections of Chelsea » by J. B. Ellenor
  • But we're full up, all six beds; there isn't even a corner for a shakedown.
  • Extract from : « A Fourth Form Friendship » by Angela Brazil