houseclean

houseclean
verb
clean and tidy up the house
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She housecleans every week

• Syn: ↑clean house, ↑clean
• Derivationally related forms: ↑cleaner (for: ↑clean), ↑cleaning (for: ↑clean), ↑housecleaning
• Hypernyms:
• Hyponyms: ↑G.I., ↑GI, ↑spring-clean
• Verb Group: ↑clean, ↑make clean
• Verb Frames:
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\\ˈhau̇ˌsklēn\ verb
Etymology: back-formation from housecleaning
1. : to remove dirt and accumulated rubbish from a house, room, or building : clean a house and its furniture
2. : to get rid of unwanted or useless or obnoxious items or people : clean house
1. : to set (a house or room) in order by thorough cleaning of surfaces and furnishings
2. : to improve or reform (as an administrative department) by ridding of undesirable people or inefficient practices

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/hows"kleen'/, v.t.
1. to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
v.i.
2. to engage in housecleaning.
[1860-65; back formation from HOUSECLEANING]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • List of English back-formations — Back formation refers to either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new word ) by removing actual or supposed affixes, or to the neologism formed by such a process. Back formations are shortened words created from longer words …   Wikipedia

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  • housecleaner — noun Someone employed to clean a house. See Also: clean house, houseclean …   Wiktionary

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