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/hˈaʊsklˌinɪŋ/ Listen

Housecleaning

noun

(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"

The act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house.

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Etymology of 'Housecleaning'

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"Housecleaning" Quotes from Famous Books

... told of a housekeeper in a farm-home in the West who saw in the sacred rite of old-school housekeepers something more than scrubbing and polishing ... When her housecleaning was over she knew just what linen she would need during the coming year, just how much fruits and vegetables she would need to can or preserve or dry, just what clothing must be replaced or repaired, and what ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... biscuits a day, and those were full of worms. At first I used to busy myself scrupulously, like a well brought up boy, carefully picking out the little beasts, but after the housecleaning, there was nothing left except bits of crust as thin as wafers, and I ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Words linked to "Housecleaning" : cleansing, figure of speech, houseclean, figure, cleanup, trope, cleaning, reform, image