Cleaner

Quick meaning: Cleaner is a noun meaning A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

Meaning

A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

More Meanings

1. A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
2. A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
3. (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
4. (informal, idiomatic) A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
5. Comparative form of clean: more clean.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: cleaning fluid

I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.

Diesel No. C222 was shunting near the shed, as was a 4-4-0 with a very large-looking boiler, No. 306, which was much the cleaner of the two.

The cleaner worked, of course, at nights. He had to coal and light up the engine, as well as clean it, for the next day's work, which commenced with a light run to Barnham to "bring in the goods" from that station at about 6.30 a.m.

Word Forms

• cleaners

Synonyms for cleaner

Depending on context, synonyms include cleanser.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cleanser, wiper, screen, filtering, filter, cleansing.

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