What part of speech is shakedowns?

Shakedowns can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. shakedowns is a noun, plural of shakedown.

Inflections

Noun

What does shakedowns mean?

Definitions

Noun

shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
shakedown - initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown"

Examples of shakedowns

#   Sentence  
1. noun A shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs.
2. noun The new industry's economic shakedown.
3. adj. A shakedown cruise.
Sentence  
noun
A shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs.
The new industry's economic shakedown.
adj.
A shakedown cruise.

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