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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clear-out
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Yesterday's clear-out removed the last of the hardliners from the politburo.
Wiktionary
clear-out

alt. 1 The act of emptying something. 2 (context basketball English) (rfdef lang=en topic=basketball) n. 1 The act of emptying something. 2 (context basketball English) (rfdef lang=en topic=basketball)

Usage examples of "clear-out".

Charlton Heston had lifted up his staff and they'd all been organized and ready to go, and the whole clear-out had taken about three minutes of screen time, goats and granddaddies and all, leaving not so much as a crumpled bread wrapper or a pile of dog droppings on the tidy streets of Thebes.