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cleaningware

cleaningware noun: cleaning items.

Noun

cleaningware (uncountable)

  1. Cleaning items.
    • Spring has come. It’s the time when Madam Housewife indulges in the sacred rite of Spring cleaning. If she is wise she will lay in an effective but inexpensive stock of cleaningware from Raue Hdwe. Co., before she begins.1930 February 20, “For Spring Cleaning”, in Crystal Lake Herald, volume 54, number 8, Crystal Lake, Ill., page three
    • The most difficult of cleaning jobs can be readily accomplished if you have the proper implements. Cleaningware of merit makes the job easier and the results more satisfactory.1930 May 6, “Hardware”, in The Anaconda Standard, volume XLI, number 245, Anaconda, Mont., page 9

Examples of cleaningware in a sentence

  • But Mr Dix, aged 60, is the only one who will not receive compensation because his premises, the Spit ’n’ Polish cleaningware shop belong to the council.1984 June 26, Beverley Hawes, “Trader’s fight to stop road”, in Western Daily Press, page 9:
  • Glass TV stand, refrigerators, desks, dressers, kitchenware, cleaningware, towels, bar stools, and lots of furniture.2013 May 25, “Garage Sales - Area Towns”, in The Pantagraph, volume 167, number 145, page C4:
  • In Carla’s opinion, kitchenware and cleaningware are products that facilitate the work of both people with and without disability.2014, Susanne Jacobson, Personalised Assistive Products: Managing Stigma and Expressing the Self, Aalto University, →ISBN, page 207:

Origin of cleaningware

From cleaning + -ware.

Questions about cleaningware

What does cleaningware mean?
Cleaningware means cleaning items.
How do you use cleaningware in a sentence?
But Mr Dix, aged 60, is the only one who will not receive compensation because his premises, the Spit ’n’ Polish cleaningware shop belong to the council.
What part of speech is cleaningware?
Cleaningware is a noun.

Words near cleaningware in the dictionary

  1. cleaning woman
  2. cleaning women
  3. cleaning-ladies
  4. cleaning-lady
  5. cleanings
  6. cleaningware
  7. cleanish
  8. cleanlier
  9. cleanliest
  10. cleanlily
  11. cleanliness

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