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shape-up definition

shape·-up (-up′)

noun

a method of selecting a daily work crew, as of longshoremen, from an assembled group of those available

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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