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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square awayverb

    put (things or places) in order

    "Tidy up your room!"

  2. clean upverb

    make a big profit; often in a short period of time

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

  3. clean upverb

    dispose of

    "settle the bills"

  4. clean upverb

    make oneself clean, presentable or neat

    "Clean up before you go to the party"

Wiktionary

  1. clean upverb

    To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.

  2. clean upverb

    To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.

  3. clean upverb

    To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.

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  1. clean up

    Clean up refers to the process of making a place tidy and neat by removing dirt, unnecessary items, or clutter. This may involve actions such as washing, sweeping, dusting, organizing, or straightening items. The term can also be used metaphorically in various contexts to suggest rectifying, resolving or eliminating problems or mistakes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clean up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clean up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of clean up in a Sentence

  1. India Governor Raghuram Rajan:

    I want to put something like March 2017 on the table as when we hope that a full clean-up will have been done.

  2. The San Francisco 49ers:

    We've got some things to clean up, but we played well enough to win and that's all you can ask for, playoff football anyone can win and we just made more plays today.

  3. Ted Zellers:

    Steel workers would come home. They would clean up down in the basement before they came upstairs.

  4. Robert Downey Jr.:

    Between robotics and technology, we could probably clean up the planet significantly, if not entirely, within a decade.

  5. Dan May:

    He took a bat into Kelsey's apartment and he beat her, and he beat her and he beat her and he beat her... and left a blood bath for someone else to clean up.


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