Usually means: Maintaining cleanliness and order indoors.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word housecleaning:

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  1. housecleaning: Merriam-Webster
  2. housecleaning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. housecleaning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. housecleaning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Housecleaning, housecleaning: Wordnik
  6. housecleaning: Wiktionary
  7. housecleaning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. housecleaning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. housecleaning: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. housecleaning: Dictionary.com
  11. housecleaning: Rhymezone
  12. housecleaning: FreeDictionary.org
  13. housecleaning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. housecleaning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house.

Similar:
clean house, clean, housekeeping, cleanup, spring cleaning, decluttering, housebuying, shampooing, homebuying, tidying, more...

Opposite:
mess-making, cluttering, disorganizing, untidying

Types:
mopping, sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing, polishing, laundry, more...

Phrases:
do some housecleaning, political housecleaning, more...

Adjectives:
thorough, general, little, own, major, complete, mental, political, good, annual, spiritual

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Similar:
clean house, clean, housekeeping, cleanup, spring cleaning, decluttering, housebuying, shampooing, homebuying, tidying, more...

Opposite:
mess-making, cluttering, disorganizing, untidying

Types:
mopping, sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing, polishing, laundry, more...

Phrases:
do some housecleaning, political housecleaning, more...

Adjectives:
thorough, general, little, own, major, complete, mental, political, good, annual, spiritual



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