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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cleaner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dry cleaner's
pipe cleaner
vacuum cleaner
window cleaner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dry
▪ She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners.
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ For another, what you got here is a city full of fops and only one dry cleaners.
▪ And the smell of new things, clothes no one has ever taken to the dry cleaners.
▪ Avoid places such as dry cleaners and petrol stations while you are testing out these measures.
■ NOUN
office
▪ His most notorious story was a psychoanalysis of Rupert Murdoch based on material from sources including the office cleaners.
▪ I worked part-time as a waitress and office cleaner.
▪ One inconclusive thought led to another, and I found myself wondering about Miss Macdonald's story of the office cleaner.
pipe
▪ Simplest of the systems is to attach the bear to the kiteline using a soft wire pipe cleaner.
street
▪ Altecean street cleaners were piling the litter with their long rakes.
▪ Using this information, it reassigned its street cleaners and began to reward crews that made the greatest improvements.
▪ The officer's historical role as a street cleaner occasionally required a measure of dexterity and imagination.
▪ The best street cleaner in London does not work in a direct labour department in Hackney, Lambeth or Lewisham.
vacuum
▪ It was derived from an ordinary domestic vacuum cleaner.
▪ No refrigerator, no radio, no telephone, no automatic laundry, no vacuum cleaner.
▪ Their other advantages are warmth and ease of cleaning with a carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner.
▪ So, he also sold vacuum cleaners door to door.
▪ The housekeeper used to decide what vacuum cleaner to order, but the maids had to use them.
▪ Switching on the vacuum cleaner, he runs it over a small area of the gray wall-to-wall carpet.
▪ If you own more than one type of vacuum cleaner, please answer for each cleaner that you own.
▪ Clouds are like vacuum cleaners in the sky, Bruck explained.
window
▪ The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows.
▪ It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred.
▪ Window problem: The huge expanse of windows on Darlington's new Cornmill Centre has presented window cleaners with a headache.
▪ Defective windows were a risk which window cleaners should guard against.
▪ The hearing was told that Mr Gannon, a self-employed window cleaner, died of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
■ VERB
take
▪ Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners, it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out.
▪ And the smell of new things, clothes no one has ever taken to the dry cleaners.
▪ Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that.
▪ Almost everyone who stepped into that place made some crack about getting taken to the cleaners.
▪ Then she took a cleaner but st ill crumpled paper from the tin.
▪ It's worth taking your vacuum cleaner, dusters, disinfectant, dishcloths and drawer-liners with you in the car.
use
▪ How often do you use your vacuum cleaner, and what do you wear to do the cleaning?
▪ The expense of solvent decarbonisers usually rules them out when caustic cleaners can be used.
▪ All flight surfaces, fuselage, cleared of frost, ice or snow. Use a prescribed cleaner.
▪ Finishing off Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner.
▪ They were found in a van used by the cleaners.
▪ Do not use abrasive kitchen cleaners or fluids and never apply the cleaner directly to the surface.
▪ It was a cupboard used by the cleaners that contained a number of other odds and ends.
▪ Clean the glass using a special cleaner like K6 and insulate with bubble polythene to keep the warmth in.
work
▪ For most of the day they're shut in a darkened cupboard while Mrs Mooney works as a supermarket cleaner.
▪ Margaret Godfrey worked as a cleaner for Oxford University.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a window cleaner
▪ Keep household cleaners away from children.
▪ Wayne had previously worked as a pool cleaner.
▪ We finish work at six, and then the cleaners come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But those pants went to the cleaners this very morning.
▪ Do mid-day supervisors, cooks, cleaners, caretaker and crossing patrol receive copies?
▪ I lit his cigarettes and took his suits to the cleaners.
▪ Macrophages are something like a cross between a Pac Man and a vacuum cleaner.
▪ She even knew of a cleaner she was sure would be able and willing.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleaner

Cleaner \Clean"er\, n. One who, or that which, cleans.

Cleaner

Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), a. [Compar. Cleaner (kl[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[=ae]ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. Glair.]

  1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

  2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

  3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

  4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

  5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

    When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
    --Lev. xxiii. 22.

  6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

    Create in me a clean heart, O God.
    --Ps. li. 10

    That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
    --Tennyson.

  7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.

  8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. ``Lothair is clean.''
    --F. Harrison.

  9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

    A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection.

    Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4.

    To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cleaner

mid-15c., agent noun from clean (v.). Meaning "shop that cleans clothes" is from 1873. To take (someone) to the cleaners "get all of (someone's) money" is from 1921.\n

Wiktionary
cleaner

Etymology 1 n. 1 A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things. 2 A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner. 3 A cleaning detergent. 4 (context in the plural English) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (gloss: business). Etymology 2

a. (en-comparative of: clean)

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WordNet
cleaner

  1. n. a preparation used in cleaning something [syn: cleansing agent, cleanser]

  2. the operator of dry-cleaning establishment [syn: dry cleaner]

  3. someone whose occupation is cleaning

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Wikipedia
Cleaner (band)

Cleaner is the name of a German project specializing in electronic music. Formerly known as Cleen, Myer released several albums on the American industrial music record label, Metropolis Records, as well as the labels Zoth Ommog and Accession Records.

Cleaner (crime)

A cleaner, or fixer, is a person who "cleans up" after crimes to physically erase their trace or uses pressure or bribes to limit fallout from a criminal act.

A fixer plays a similar but often less hands-on role, often minimizing bad publicity for public officials or media figures by quelling stories of their misadventures, but also capable of more heavyhanded tactics, as necessary.

A cleaner may destroy or remove incriminating evidence at the scene of a crime. A popular figure in crime fiction, a cleaner may also be a contract killer who commits murder to "clean up" a situation. Cleaner is also a slang term for someone, usually a member of a crime organization or a covert government agency, who disposes of a corpse after a hit.

Legal crime scene cleanup is a legitimate industry, eliminating blood and other biohazardous materials such as dangerous chemicals used in an illegal drug lab as permitted by responsible authorities.

A fictional example of a cleaner is Shoulders from the comic strip Dick Tracy. More contemporary are the roles played by Jean Reno as Victor in the movie La Femme Nikita (1990) , Harvey Keitel as Victor in the film Point of No Return (1993), and a year later as a Mr. Wolfe in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994), Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut in the TV series Breaking Bad (TV series) (2008–2013). It was parodied in the sitcom Seinfeld's episode 155, " The Muffin Tops" (1997), where Newman makes the problem of leftover muffin stumps go away by eating them. Another example is the character Ray Donovan in the Showtime television series of the same name.

Cleaner (film)

Cleaner is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Renny Harlin, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Keke Palmer and Eva Mendes.

Cleaner (disambiguation)

A cleaner is an industrial or domestic worker who cleans.

Cleaner(s) or The Cleaner(s) may also refer to:

Cleaner

A cleaner is a type of industrial or domestic worker who cleans homes or commercial premises for payment. Cleaners may specialise in cleaning particular things or places, such as window cleaners. Cleaners often work when the people who otherwise occupy the space are not around. They may clean offices at night or houses during the workday.

The 2000 film Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles, California to fight for better pay and working conditions, and the right to join a union. In an interview with the BBC in 2001, Loach stated that thousands of cleaners from around 30 countries have since contacted him with tales similar to the one told in the film.

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Usage examples of "cleaner".

Dostoyevsky forgotten the comparison of cesspit cleaner with poet, formulated by Zaytsev.

Bernard Barker shifts nervously as in right-angular time a future president metamorphoses the plumbers into the cesspool cleaners: but now, inside the Watergate, the Illuminati bug is unnoticed by those planting the CREEP bug, although both were subsequently found by the technicians installing the BUGGER bug.

Did Octavian have asthma, it makes everything that happened to him during that campaign in Macedonia logical, including his fleeing to the sea breezes and cleaner air of the salt marshes while dry ground was fogged by a suffocating pall of chaffy dust.

When she was home, Chia liked it that the construct was cleaner than her room ever was.

Its burbling stream, fresh from the Huatanay, might at least be cleaner than most European water supplies of the time, but he had arranged to have some chicha poured about them when they were dumped.

According to county medical records, Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.

Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

LOST COUNT after the sixth fight, but he could hear, overhead, the pit cleaners circling noisily, gobbling up old fewmets with their iron mouths.

The hubbub of hushed and excited voices blended with the tearful cries of confused infants and children, over the omnipresent hum of powerful, industrial-strength air cleaners.

The stench of the rotting, rubbery flesh did not appear to bother the fascinated ichthyologists, but Griff, at last, climbed to the headlands once more to gulp in cleaner air.

Kinaveral Port willfly card, and gave her a key to a sleeping room with its own sonic cleaner, which device Khat made immediate, grateful use of.

Tom Loker was soon carefully deposited in a much cleaner and softer bed than he had, ever been in the habit of occupying.

Cleaner and not so ragged kids under school age played in the better-looking streets, and here and there mums were seen whitening their doorsteps.

After toweling his face, Bart lightly limped over to his desk and retrieved his finest nibbed pen from the sonic cleaner.