shakedown

And even more changes are being made every day as we go through shakedown.

We take care of shakedown artists in our own way.

What is the level of shakedowns now compared to when we started?

This was supposed to be a working shakedown, after all.

No matter how busy you are, there's always time for a shakedown.

In six hours, I want to be ready for a shakedown cruise.

They gave me a shakedown for the night in the cargo.

He spotted us for people likely to have money and tried the good old shakedown.

For most of our group, this was the shakedown cruise.

Sam ought to be good for some kind of a shakedown.

I think some people referred to it at the time as a near shakedown.

"She'll be ready for her shakedown cruise in less than a month."

"One month after that she'll be ready for her first shakedown cruise."

Following her arrival there, she began a period of shakedown training.

When they try to collect their shakedown money they'll run into trouble.

Any other approach, he said, would be awkward - and could even sound like a shakedown.

"Looks like we'll have quite a shakedown ahead of us.

Most of our training and shakedown cruises have turned into the real thing.

It was the most blatant shakedown I had ever seen.

Three days later she left for shakedown operations off Panama.

"I almost feel like the threat of a strike is a shakedown."

"He'd like you to come along with him as first officer on his shakedown cruise."

Let's just pretend we did a shakedown run and we'll all rest easily.

A quick shakedown of the house revealed no other human presence.

The menu, like the staff, is in a shakedown stage.