Housecleaning

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The cleaning and tidying of a house and its contents.
  • n. Informal Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house.
  • v. Present participle of houseclean.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house
  • n. (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions
    • Verb Form
    housecleaning   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    straighten out    tidy    straighten    clean up    neaten   
    Hyponym
    gi    g.i    spring-clean   
    Form
    housecleaner   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.