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say it: SHAY-kuhp
shakeup is a noun meaning "the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)". It is pronounced /ˈʃeɪˌkʌp/ — SHAY-kuhp. It carries one recorded sense.
the imposition of 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”
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 shakeup 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.