1. an improvement in condition, performance, or behavior
Usage: informal
2. a system of hiring dock workers daily at the workplace
Usage: labor relations

Examples

• The company’s financial shapeup impressed investors.
• After the coach’s warning, there was a real shapeup in the team’s attitude.
• The school district needs a major shapeup to improve test scores.
• His behavior shapeup came just in time to avoid suspension.
• The union opposed the traditional shapeup system at the docks.
• Workers gathered each morning for the shapeup to find employment.