Increase and Shakeout

Increase

Increase noun - Something added (as by growth).

Shakeout is an antonym for increase.

Shakeout

Shakeout noun - An economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry.

Increase is an antonym for shakeout in reversal of action topic.
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