CLEANUP

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleanup mean? 

• CLEANUP (noun)
  The noun CLEANUP has 3 senses:

1. a very large profit
2. (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
3. the act of making something clean

  Familiarity information: CLEANUP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEANUP (noun)

Meaning:

A very large profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cleanup; killing

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Meaning:

(baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cleanup position; cleanup spot; cleanup

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)

Domain category:

baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Holonyms ("cleanup" is a part of...):

batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)

Meaning:

The act of making something clean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cleaning; cleansing; cleanup

Context example:

he gave his shoes a good cleaning

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cleanup"):

disinfestation (the activity of getting rid of vermin)

housecleaning (the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house)

bathing; washup (the act of washing yourself (or another person))

depilation; epilation (the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin))

sanitation; sanitisation; sanitization (making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing)

sterilisation; sterilization (the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means))

purification (the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities)

purge; purging (an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements)

sweeping (the act of cleaning with a broom)

dry cleaning (the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water)

scouring; scrub; scrubbing (the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water)

spring-cleaning (the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter)