housecleaning
Example Sentences
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"You could do a bit of housecleaning for a change," Allun teased.
From Literature
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This wasn’t a major housecleaning but more like a culling of online subscriptions.
Bowman has slashed staff and pursued what many inside and outside the central bank view as a housecleaning of the supervision and regulation division’s senior leadership.
But even after a new album — the band’s 12th — was released in April, concert sales lagged, leading to the cancellations and a housecleaning behind the scenes.
From New York Times
Irregular labor like yard work or housecleaning is their only way of making a living.
From Seattle Times
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