From the headline of this article at Reuters.
上記の文で、shakeupとwar roomの意味は？
In the sentence above, what do "shakeup" and "war room" mean?
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解答
意味：
Shakeup
英辞郎によると、
刷新、変革、大改造、大改革、機構改革、大整理、鍛え直し(shake-upと書くこともできる)
War room
英辞郎によると、
作戦指令室
Answer
Shakeup
According to Merriam-Webster:
an act or instance of shaking up; specifically : an extensive and often drastic reorganization
War room
According to Merriam-Webster:
a room (as at a business headquarters) used for conferences and planning that is often specially equipped (as with computers, or charts)
Etymology/語源
Shakeup
Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、
初めて使われたのが1899年。動詞句shake (v.) + up (adv.)から
War room
Merriam-Websterによると、
初めて使われたのが1901年。
Shakeup
According to Online Etymology Dictionary:
"reorganization," 1899, from verbal phrase, from shake (v.) + up (adv.).
War room
According to Merriam-Webster:
First known use of war room: 1901
Examples
Shakeup
- Bird attributes the sound to a shake-up in his recording process.
- He even foreshadowed his plans for a shake-up during a conference call with media reporters back in November.
- The company is undergoing a radical shake-up.
- The arrival of the new baby caused a thorough shake-up of their family life.
- "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
War room
- A war room for the 2008 election season, By the People had its world premiere in Los Angeles this week.
- A Dukakis staffer turned Clinton humorist reviews the new documentary "The Return of the War Room."
- What the war room represented was centralized control, broad sharing of information.
- As for the McCain campaign, the remnants of the war room can be seen in its daily episodes of Extreme Message Makeover.
- The first war room gave us the working metaphor for modern campaigns and a roster of politicos who themselves became legends.
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