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The correct spelling is cleaner.
How to pronounce cleaner
noun
IPA: /ˈkliː.nə/
Say it like: Clee-ner
The correct spelling is cleaner. A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things. For example: "I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners."
Usage Examples
“I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.”
“I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence”
“Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
- 2.A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- 3.A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent.
- 4.(in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)
adjective
- 1.(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- 2.(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
- 3.Smooth, exact, and performed well
- 4.Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- 5.Cool or neat.
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