shock therapy

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shock therapy (usually uncountable, plural shock therapies)

  1. Synonym of electroconvulsive therapy
  2. The use of a single, very large dose of a medicine
    Hyponym: insulin shock therapy
  3. (economics) Government policy of sudden release of price controls and immediate trade liberalization within a country.
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