cleaner
/ˈkliːnə
/noun
1A person or thing that cleans something, in particular:
1.1A person employed to clean the interior of a building: she’s one of the office cleaners...
- Companies use agencies to employ cleaners for their buildings.
- In fact, one boy employed as an office cleaner did not even know how to open a door.
- And meanwhile they're employing kitchen staff and cleaners from where?
1.2 (the cleaners) A shop where clothes and fabrics are dry-cleaned: my suit’s at the cleaners...
- We were supposed to put all the clothes from the cleaners or the laundry onto crocheted hangers that my grandmother had made for us.
- For instance, when all the actors sent their clothes to the cleaners, all of the women's underwear was sent back.
- You get a whiff of that fluid too, every time you pick up your clothes from the cleaners.
1.3A device for cleaning, such as a vacuum cleaner.Other firms have shown off prototype robot cleaners, but it is the first to put one into production....
- The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
- A standard central vacuum canister works on the same principle as a conventional cleaner.
1.4A chemical substance used for cleaning: an oven cleaner...
- Stronger cleaners such as oven or drain cleaners also contain corrosive substances, which will kill and remove tissue cells.
- Benzene, a chemical in detergents and oven cleaners, is also known to be a carcinogen.
- What goes down the drain at home winds up in the sea - phosphate detergents, household solvents, chemical cleaners and human sewage.
Phrases
take someone to the cleaners