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What does shake up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shake up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To agitate by shaking.
  2. (of a person) To upset or distress.
  3. (transitive) To reorganize, to make reforms in.
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The Department of Health insisted its decision was based on sound evidence and was designed to shake up existing provision.
Plans to radically shake up local government and to divide the country into elected regional assemblies are currently under debate.
Trafford council wants to shake up its home care service and bring in a private company or voluntary agency.
There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
At the same time, the imminent introduction of wide-bodied aircraft threatened to shake up the entire industry for the second time in ten years.
Codes must shake up an entrenched engineering corps that still favours technology over cost effectiveness.

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