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window-cleaner

window-cleaner is the alternative form of window cleaner.

Meaning of window cleaner

Noun

window cleaner (plural window cleaners)

  1. A person whose job is to clean windows.
    • In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025
    Synonyms:
    window washer
  2. Any of various specific formulas of cleaner, usually cleaning fluid, for glass windows; many commonly encountered ones contain ammonia, and nonammoniacal types exist for various special purposes.
    • Near-synonyms: glass cleaner (usually coinstantial), Windex (a famous brand of such cleaners)

Forms of window-cleaner

pluralwindow-cleaners

Questions about window-cleaner

What is window-cleaner the alternative form of?
Window-cleaner is the alternative form of window cleaner.

Words near window-cleaner in the dictionary

  1. window treatments
  2. window up
  3. window washer
  4. window washers
  5. window-breaker
  6. window-cleaner
  7. window-cleaners
  8. window-down
  9. window-downs
  10. window-dress
  11. window-dressed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: window-cleaner (page history and authors); window cleaner (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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