clean_up has definitions from the field of business
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[ verb ] put (things or places) in order

Examples

"Tidy up your room!"

Used in print

(Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)

An area may have been partially logged and requires removal of stumps or clean_up .

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Who would clean_up the mess when the war was over ?

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

Clean the place up .

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

They had cleaned_up an old ice_box and begun to buy fifty pound blocks of ice in town , as the electric_refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

They had the house cleaned_up by noon , and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses .

Related terms

order houseclean make

2
[ verb ] (business) make a big profit; often in a short period of time

Examples

"The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"

Related terms

profit killing

3
[ verb ] dispose of

Examples

"settle the bills"

Related terms

settle

4
[ verb ] make oneself presentable or neat

Examples

"Clean up before you go to the party"

Related terms

groom cleaning

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