shake-up shake-ups in AM, use shakeup A shake-up is a major set of changes in an organization or a system. a radical shake-up of the secondary education system
the act of imposing a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
If you are shaken up or shook up by an unpleasant experience, it makes you feel shocked and upset, and unable to think calmly or clearly. The jockey was shaken up when he was thrown twice from his horse yesterday He was in the car when those people died. That really shook him up
If someone shakes up something such as an organization, an institution, or a profession, they make major changes to it. The government wanted to reform the institutions, to shake up the country Shareholders are preparing to shake things up in the boardrooms of America. see also shake-up
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
the act of imposing a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"