An upheaval in or radical reorganization of a business, market, or organization, typically involving streamlining and redundancies.
〈非正式〉（企业、市场或机构为竞争而进行的、多涉及精简和裁员的）动荡；机构重组
the current shake-out in the computer industry
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Second, for the past year at least, the loss in jobs and the shake-out in the financial sector in particular, has been marked and growth in London has slowed considerably.
Reliance on search engines is increasing and will continue to do so, so it is not surprising that there are shake-outs from time to time.
The result may be a shake-out of some sort, with the top players increasingly dominant and the rest left looking for a niche.
He likens the current shake-out to the period of stagnation in the 1980s when US companies were forced to sit down and make choices.
Taken over a five-year period, the Irish pension funds have yielded an average return of just 1.1%, dragged down by the shake-out that started in the Nasdaq in 2000 when the high-tech bubble finally burst.
The bottom line is that shake-outs of the content management and enterprise portal markets have long been predicted.
The market will witness a shake-out when the de-tariffing of motor and fire insurance takes place.
The directors will indicate that the fall is very much in line with the general experience of bio-tech sector which has suffered from the shake-out among shares of ‘new economy’ stocks following heavy selling on Wall Street.
There will be a big shake-out, not just in Scotland.
‘This has been the shake-out of the century,’ he says of the current retail chaos.
The graphic design business in Dublin has suffered a shake-out in recent years.
When the downturn first began and investment banks in the City of London began a staff shake-out, Scottish fund managers were a beneficiary.
The shake-out in the overcrowded Wi - Fi chip market has been predicted for a year now, and it seems finally to be starting.
He said: ‘I need to sink some putts in the final round if I am to get into the frame at the shake-out, but I'm in there and fighting.’
Today even optimistic analysts are calling for a continuing shake-out.
Although shake-outs are part of the usual flow of business in any economy, it can set a whole series of events in motion when consumers stop buying, or when retailers stop making profits because of price wars.
But after a wretched start and a closing round of 74, he missed the final shake-out between the leading 75 players for the 35 places by three strokes.
But the underlying cause of last week's yo-yo-ing on the markets was the long-awaited shake-out of the over-valued internet companies.
The international shake-out in the information and communications technology sectors, which impacted with big job losses in Ireland in recent days, was especially cited as posing difficulties and dampening economic growth.
The Executive blamed the US slowdown and the shake-out in global electronics.