the cleaners
plural noun
variants
or the cleaner's
: a shop where clothes are cleaned : a dry cleaning establishment
I took my suit to the cleaners.
Examples of the cleaners in a Sentence
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Bissell, a vacuum company, said customers should stop using the cleaners and contact them to receive either a $60 credit or a $40 refund.
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Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 18 July 2024
Advertisement A little before 3 p.m., Lopez is back at the cleaners.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
For the cleaners, all of that detail leaves us no space to move or breathe.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
But Garrett Gatewood, a sales associate at a nearby 7-Eleven store, called the cleaners’ presence a nuanced issue.
—Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
The pilot had asked that the area be sanitized, but the cleaners overlooked the floor.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
So no one could clean it... and the cleaners don't come.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
Boosters and companies are invariably going to get taken to the cleaners on bad deals for recruits who don’t pan out.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
Don’t stick it under the sink behind the cleaners and buckets and who knows what else.
—Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 18 July 2024
Advertisement A little before 3 p.m., Lopez is back at the cleaners.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
For the cleaners, all of that detail leaves us no space to move or breathe.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
But Garrett Gatewood, a sales associate at a nearby 7-Eleven store, called the cleaners’ presence a nuanced issue.
—Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
The pilot had asked that the area be sanitized, but the cleaners overlooked the floor.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
So no one could clean it... and the cleaners don't come.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
Boosters and companies are invariably going to get taken to the cleaners on bad deals for recruits who don’t pan out.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
Don’t stick it under the sink behind the cleaners and buckets and who knows what else.
—Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
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“The cleaners.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20cleaners. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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