shakedown

Adjective

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
  • a shakedown cruise
    

Noun

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• a very thorough search of a person or a place
  • a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs
    

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
  • the new industry's economic shakedown