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say it: SHAY-kowt
shakeout is a noun meaning "an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shakeout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.