housecleaning

English Thesaurus

1. the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house (noun.act)

hypernym	:	cleaning, cleansing, cleanup,
definition	:	the act of making something clean (noun.act)

2. (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions (noun.act)

hypernym	:	reform,
definition	:	a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses (noun.act)

domain usage	:	figure, figure of speech, image, trope,
definition	:	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)

3. the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house (noun.act)

derivation	:	clean, clean house, houseclean,
definition	:	clean and tidy up the house (verb.contact)

derivation	:	clean, clean house, houseclean,
definition	:	clean and tidy up the house (verb.contact)