shakedown|shakedowns in English

noun

improvised bed made from straw; adjustment period; extortion of money; test voyage performed in order to check a new vessel for faults or defects; thorough search

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1. Look, I'm talking shakedowns, organ trafficking.

2. Following shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Whipple returned to Philadelphia for post-shakedown availability.

3. Boatbuilder, Boats, March '17, People, Shakedown Cruise

4. Every person and every vehicle going through the gates is subject to a thorough shakedown.

5. After shakedown, Helm operated in the Caribbean until March 1938.

6. She returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City, for post-shakedown overhaul.

7. Following shakedown, Roe conducted exercises along the east coast and in the Pacific.

8. It's the IRS and the Miami PD, and it's all just that shakedown.

9. After fitting out, Atlanta conducted shakedown training until 13 March 1942, first in Chesapeake Bay and then in Maine's Casco Bay, after which she returned to the New York Navy Yard for post-shakedown repairs and alterations.

10. In addition to successful shakedown testing and mapping operations, EX1201 also yielded a number of positive educational outcomes.

11. Following shakedown training, she spent the rest of 1961 off the California coast in amphibious exercises.

12. Following a shakedown cruise off Cuba, Mervine reported for duty with the Gulf Sea Frontier at New Orleans, 30 August 1942.

13. With repairs completed and after shakedown training, she spent February 1946 on mine-sweeping operations out of Yorktown, Virginia.

14. Achernar held shakedown in the Caribbean and spent the remainder of her career conducting various training exercises in the Virginia capes operating area.

15. Following shakedown, Renshaw reported to the Pacific Fleet in the spring of 1943, and protected transports in the Solomon Islands area.

16. Arriving on 18 March, the cruiser conducted shakedown training and shore bombardment exercises off Culebra, Puerto Rico, before returning to Norfolk on 11 April.

17. After shakedown along the West Coast, Gregory sailed for the Pacific with Hull (DD-350), reaching Pearl Harbor on 23 October 1944.

18. After shakedown off the west coast, Laffey headed for the war zone via Pearl Harbor, arriving at Efate on 28 August 1942.

19. Yorktown remained in the Naval Station Norfolk area until 21 May, when she got underway for shakedown training in the vicinity of Trinidad.

20. Tie Dye Pull On Cap, Tie Dye Hat, Adult Tie Dye Boggin', Hippie Headpiece, Shakedown Street Hat, Grateful Dead Hat, Dead and Company selfex

21. She departed the West Indies on 16 July and headed back to Norfolk where she arrived on 22 July for post-shakedown repairs and alterations.

22. This decision drew fire from MoveOn, which characterized the program as an "email tax", and the EFF, which characterized it as a shakedown of non-profits.

23. Gwin completed shakedown training on 20 April 1941 and underwent final alterations in the Boston Navy Yard before conducting a neutrality patrol throughout the Caribbean Sea.

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25. Following a hurried shakedown cruise along the Atlantic Coast in the spring of 1942, Juneau assumed blockade patrol in early May off Martinique and Guadeloupe Islands to prevent the escape of Vichy French naval units.