noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dry cleaner's
pipe cleaner
vacuum cleaner
window cleaner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dry
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She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners .
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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For another, what you got here is a city full of fops and only one dry cleaners .
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And the smell of new things, clothes no one has ever taken to the dry cleaners .
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Avoid places such as dry cleaners and petrol stations while you are testing out these measures.
■ NOUN
office
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His most notorious story was a psychoanalysis of Rupert Murdoch based on material from sources including the office cleaners .
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I worked part-time as a waitress and office cleaner .
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One inconclusive thought led to another, and I found myself wondering about Miss Macdonald's story of the office cleaner .
pipe
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Simplest of the systems is to attach the bear to the kiteline using a soft wire pipe cleaner .
street
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Altecean street cleaners were piling the litter with their long rakes.
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Using this information, it reassigned its street cleaners and began to reward crews that made the greatest improvements.
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The officer's historical role as a street cleaner occasionally required a measure of dexterity and imagination.
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The best street cleaner in London does not work in a direct labour department in Hackney, Lambeth or Lewisham.
vacuum
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It was derived from an ordinary domestic vacuum cleaner .
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No refrigerator, no radio, no telephone, no automatic laundry, no vacuum cleaner .
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Their other advantages are warmth and ease of cleaning with a carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner .
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So, he also sold vacuum cleaners door to door.
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The housekeeper used to decide what vacuum cleaner to order, but the maids had to use them.
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Switching on the vacuum cleaner , he runs it over a small area of the gray wall-to-wall carpet.
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If you own more than one type of vacuum cleaner , please answer for each cleaner that you own.
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Clouds are like vacuum cleaners in the sky, Bruck explained.
window
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The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows.
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It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred.
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Window problem: The huge expanse of windows on Darlington's new Cornmill Centre has presented window cleaners with a headache.
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Defective windows were a risk which window cleaners should guard against.
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The hearing was told that Mr Gannon, a self-employed window cleaner , died of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
■ VERB
take
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Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners , it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out.
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And the smell of new things, clothes no one has ever taken to the dry cleaners .
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Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that.
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Almost everyone who stepped into that place made some crack about getting taken to the cleaners .
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Then she took a cleaner but st ill crumpled paper from the tin.
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It's worth taking your vacuum cleaner , dusters, disinfectant, dishcloths and drawer-liners with you in the car.
use
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How often do you use your vacuum cleaner , and what do you wear to do the cleaning?
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The expense of solvent decarbonisers usually rules them out when caustic cleaners can be used .
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All flight surfaces, fuselage, cleared of frost, ice or snow. Use a prescribed cleaner .
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Finishing off Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner .
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They were found in a van used by the cleaners .
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Do not use abrasive kitchen cleaners or fluids and never apply the cleaner directly to the surface.
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It was a cupboard used by the cleaners that contained a number of other odds and ends.
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Clean the glass using a special cleaner like K6 and insulate with bubble polythene to keep the warmth in.
work
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For most of the day they're shut in a darkened cupboard while Mrs Mooney works as a supermarket cleaner .
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Margaret Godfrey worked as a cleaner for Oxford University.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a window cleaner
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Keep household cleaners away from children.
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Wayne had previously worked as a pool cleaner .
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We finish work at six, and then the cleaners come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But those pants went to the cleaners this very morning.
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Do mid-day supervisors, cooks, cleaners, caretaker and crossing patrol receive copies?
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I lit his cigarettes and took his suits to the cleaners.
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Macrophages are something like a cross between a Pac Man and a vacuum cleaner .
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She even knew of a cleaner she was sure would be able and willing.