Shakeout
WordNet
noun
(1) A financial condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry
"They glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.
- The dot-com shakeout of the 90s left only the most durable, most profitable, and most well backed companies surviving.
- The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.