Shakedowns [noun]
Definition of Shakedowns:
extortion
Opposite/Antonyms of Shakedowns:
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Sentence/Example of Shakedowns:
I'll come in later, and if they'll make me a shakedown, I'll stay with you to-night.
We'll scare you up a shakedown to sleep on and you're welcome as welcome.
You and I are to sleep here, Mary,” she said, “and Peter is to have a shakedown in the sitting-room.
I assure you, my dear friends, it's a shakedown fit for a prince!
"He said he'd beg a shakedown at your house, Violet," George interrupted.
He walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown.
This money is yours—and you will have a shakedown for the night—only on condition that you stick to what you've said.
There was to be a cruiser waiting at Bremerton for a shakedown cruise.
The accommodation a shakedown on some planks, and breakfast in the morning.
But we're full up, all six beds; there isn't even a corner for a shakedown.