adj.
1.intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system shakedown n.
1.initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
2.a very thorough search of a person or a place
3.extortion of money (as by blackmail)
Idiom of the Day
put (someone or something) through (something)
to cause someone or something to succeed or pass
The young man worked hard to put himself through university. The city government put the new law through quickly.