Etymology
Origin of housecleaning
Example Sentences
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Bowman has slashed staff and pursued what many inside and outside the central bank view as a housecleaning of the supervision and regulation division’s senior leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Spending time with such a character inspired Wenders to do a little housecleaning.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023
The housecleaning could delay processing the income statements because the financial team had been reshuffled, the source said, adding "with some firings, rediscovering the past gets even more complicated."
From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023
He took jobs with employers willing to hire a child without a work permit — sometimes in landscaping and sometimes in housecleaning.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023
No waitressing, nursing homes, or housecleaning this time; I’m psyched for a change—retail, maybe, or factory work.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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