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UK
/hˈaʊskliːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈhaʊˌskɫinɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhaʊˌskɫinɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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(figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions
many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners
more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms -
the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house
efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time
How To Use housecleaning In A Sentence
- `It's Friday, like TGIF, and I do housecleaning on Saturday. AFFLICTION
- He still owes me a housecleaning and babysitting from months back and anyone who welches on a promise isn't deserving of accolades.
- Efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time.
- With the current loan for 2,500 soles, she will buy sacks of rice and sugar, packages of noodles, milk, and cases of tinned fish of a variety of brands; beauty products for men, women and children, such as colognes and talcum powder; and housecleaning and personal hygiene products, in order to continue satisfying her customers and providing them with better service. Kiva Loans
- The mayor's dismissal of this sixty-five-year-old bureaucrat marked the end of the housecleaning at City Hall.
- The book Cold Sassy Tree briefly discusses the variations in housecleaning in the North and the South of the U.S. Cleaning: Northern and Southern Style?
- If I'm lucky I'll be able to sew a little tomorrow in amidst the housecleaning. Archive 2006-08-01
- Finally, the U.S. must do some housecleaning of its own and start acting as an honest broker in the region: the ongoing congressional investigation into the deals it struck with the Bakiev regime for the use of the airbase is a step in the right direction. Peter Zalmayev: The Cost of Corruption
- Martha was a housekeeper – she reveled in housecleaning – she had In Times Like These
- a fit of housecleaning
