Meaning & use
clean-up
An act of making a place tidy by removing dirt, mess, or unwanted items.
See it in a sentence
The volunteers organized a beach clean-up to remove plastic waste from the shoreline.
After the party, the clean-up took nearly two hours to finish.
A note on using this word
Written as one word (cleanup) in American usage, though the hyphenated form is also common.
Words with a similar meaning
tidyingcleanup
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Another way to use it
2. noun
In baseball, the fourth position in the batting order, given to a strong power hitter.
The coach moved his best slugger into the clean-up spot this season.
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