cleanup
Americannoun
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the act or process of cleaning up.
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Slang. a very large profit.
The company made a real cleanup on their new invention.
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Baseball.
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the fourth position in the batting order.
Our best home-run hitter is batting cleanup.
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the player who bats in this position.
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Etymology
Origin of cleanup
1865–70, noun use of verb phrase clean up
Example Sentences
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That same month, Legal Aid scored another victory when a federal judge found that the city violated homeless people’s constitutional rights by seizing and destroying their property during encampment cleanups.
From Los Angeles Times
Some tried to help fund the cleanup—a gesture she has so far refused.
“Other places in the world would call this terrorism,” said María, the retiree who blocked the police from interrupting the street cleanup.
From Los Angeles Times
The results suggest that boosting this natural cleanup pathway could form the basis of new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, which affect millions of Americans and still lack effective treatments.
From Science Daily
These put the cost of cleanup and waste disposal on the companies that make materials — plastic, paint or carpet — rather than on consumers, cities and municipalities.
From Los Angeles Times
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