shakeout

n. an event that eliminates the weak or unproductive elements from a system. After a shakeout that lasted a month, we went into full production.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Charlize	-	Southern African, Afrikaans
Berenike	-	Ancient Greek
Miran	-	Slovene
Teofila	te-aw-FEE-lah (Polish)	Italian, Polish
Greger	-	Swedish
Mihails	-	Latvian