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houseclean

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence. 2 (context intransitive English) To make major reforms; to clean house. 3 (context transitive English) To clean the interior and residential furnishings of. 4 (context transitive English) To rid of undesirable personnel and procedures.

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houseclean

v. clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week" [syn: clean house, clean]

Usage examples of "houseclean".

I must leave my readers to decide for themselves how I solve this part of my housecleaning problem.

During the day I work for a housecleaning company that sends out maids to rich houses.

Nationwide and even international cleaning services like Merry Maids, Molly Maids, and The Maids International, all of which have arisen since the seventies, now control 20-25 percent of the housecleaning business.

When I described the methods employed by The Maids to housecleaning expert Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts, she was incredulous.

However, the association between housecleaning and minority status is well established in the psyches of the white employing class.

Sometimes, though not always, I would throw in a few housecleaning jobs, citing as references former housemates and a friend in Key West whom I have at least helped with after-dinner cleanups now and then.

I am not sure, however, that I could have maintained the seven-day-a-week regimen month after month or eluded the kinds of injuries that afflicted my fellow workers in the housecleaning business.

And no matter how good the housecleaning you buy afterwards, some of that shit stays.

No matter how good the housecleaning you buy afterwards, some of that shit stays.

After a career as a commercial airline pilot, he and his wife had opened a housecleaning service.

A good housecleaning is what this place needs, along with a few hundred decapitations.

People like other real estate agents who have keys to the lockbox, and people who do any kind of service, like housecleaning or landscaping.

It looked to me like a good chance to get out from under the complete domination that the gypsies were exercising over us girls, so I offered to come twice a week and do his housecleaning.

My fallback during dry periods with the catering business was housecleaning, which paid a reliable eight bucks an hour.

There were doctors who had nothing to do but set an occasional broken bone, printers who had no type to set or paper to use, mailmen with no mail to deliver, smiths with no horses to shoe, farmers with no crops to grow, housewives with no children to raise, the food already cooked, housecleaning done in fifteen minutes and no marketing to do, salesmen with nothing to sell, preachers whose religion was thoroughly discredited by the existence of this world, bootleggers with no means of making grain alcohol, buttonmakers with no buttons, pimps and whores whose professions were ruined by an excess of amateurs, mechanics with no autos, admen with no ads, carpetmakers with only grass and bamboo fibers to work with, cowboys without horses or cattle, painters with no paint or canvas, pianists without pianos, railroad men with no iron, stockbrokers with no stocks to deal in, and so on.