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Definition of wash-up in English: wash-upnoun ˈwɒʃʌpˈwɔʃˌəp 1An act of washing. Example sentencesExamples - Include your hair and fingernails in the wash-up.
- It's always easier, someone said, to do the wash-up in someone else's house.
- It was alleged that some business people and farmers were charging 6 pence for a glass of water, 1 shilling for a wash-up at a farmyard pump and 6 pounds a night for a room in a cottage near Athy.
- After a wash-up and a change of clothes, I went outside, and I found Angelina waiting downstairs.
- Others should zoom up the escalators to the toilets on the mezzanine level for a less-satisfactory wash-up at the basins.
- 1.1British informal A person employed to wash dishes in the kitchen of a restaurant or hotel.
2informal A debriefing session or follow-up discussion. as modifier the wash-up reports on the operation Example sentencesExamples - Discussions during the exercise and at the wash-up led to a number of recommendations.
Definition of wash-up in US English: wash-upnounˈwôSHˌəpˈwɔʃˌəp An act of washing, especially washing oneself or dishes. Example sentencesExamples - It was alleged that some business people and farmers were charging 6 pence for a glass of water, 1 shilling for a wash-up at a farmyard pump and 6 pounds a night for a room in a cottage near Athy.
- Include your hair and fingernails in the wash-up.
- Others should zoom up the escalators to the toilets on the mezzanine level for a less-satisfactory wash-up at the basins.
- After a wash-up and a change of clothes, I went outside, and I found Angelina waiting downstairs.
- It's always easier, someone said, to do the wash-up in someone else's house.
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