cleanup
Americannoun
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cleanups
plural
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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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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cleanup
1865–70, noun use of verb phrase clean up
Example Sentences
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The suit alleges Altus and Pearce didn’t help with site cleanup or community assistance in the wake of the fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
That microbial cleanup process may determine whether sorbitol stays in the gut or travels farther into the body.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
"With this operation, we achieve two purposes: one, environment cleanup, and second, recover rare earths as a valuable byproduct," said Lance Lin, director of the WVU Rare Earth Elements Initiative.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
As of Wednesday, 97% of the waste inside has been cleared, according to a Lineage website dedicated to the cleanup effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
We’d even divided the cleanup duties as we waited for the machine to ding.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Such cleanups appear to have influenced fans from other countries too.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
But as the debate over the division of housework rages, many argue that Japanese fans' signature stadium cleanups should be encouraged, not nitpicked at.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers cleared nearly 9,700 properties of hazardous items and other fire debris in eight months, one of the fastest cleanups of its size in modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
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 ● Mar. 10, 2026
The old force had come back to work, and for the first time since Broxton Day had arrived in Mexico, the outlook for getting out ore and making regular "cleanups" was bright.
From Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long
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