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clean-up

clean-up is the alternative spelling of cleanup.

Meaning of cleanup

Noun

cleanup (countable and uncountable, plural cleanups)

  1. The act of cleaning or tidying something.
    • the cost of environmental cleanup after an oil spill
  2. The act of finishing something off.
  3. Fourth in the batting order; a cleanup hitter.
    • Jones will be batting cleanup in tonight's game.

Forms of clean-up

pluralclean-ups

Origin of clean-up

Deverbal from clean up.

Questions about clean-up

What is clean-up the alternative spelling of?
Clean-up is the alternative spelling of cleanup.

Words near clean-up in the dictionary

  1. clean-room
  2. clean-rooms
  3. clean-shaved
  4. clean-shaven
  5. clean-timbered
  6. clean-up
  7. clean-ups
  8. cleanabilities
  9. cleanability
  10. cleanable
  11. cleanaholic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clean-up (page history and authors); cleanup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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