shake-up

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That said, the massive message sent by having him and his ideas pushed to the top of the stack would shake-up the political class.

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Alternative spelling of shakeup. [A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of shakeup. [A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of shakeup. [A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.]

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That said, the massive message sent by having him and his ideas pushed to the top of the stack would shake-up the political class.

From a user perspective, Apple's backend engineering is in desperate need of a management shake-up.

Optimistically it will mean a prompt for the UK as a whole to have a constitutional shake-up, with the House of Lords abolished and replaced with some kind of regional assembly, more devolution within England, federalism, and some kind of PR system introduced mostly to undermine the SNP but accidentally making the voting system better.

I've heard that EA Canada is only losing about 3% of their people, and that other large offices are being similarly lightly hit; so this sounds to me more like EA deciding that now is a good time to get rid of some underperforming employees and several inherited offices rather than any sort of major internal shake-up.