CLEANUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleanup mean? 

• CLEANUP (noun)
  The noun CLEANUP has 3 senses:

1. a very large profit

2. (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)

3. the act of making something clean

  Familiarity information: CLEANUP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEANUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very large profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cleanup; killing

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

clean up (make a big profit; often in a short period of time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cleanup; cleanup position; cleanup spot

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Holonyms ("cleanup" is a part of...):

batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of making something clean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cleaning; cleansing; cleanup

Context example:

he gave his shoes a good cleaning

Hypernyms ("cleanup" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cleanup"):

disinfestation (the activity of getting rid of vermin)

spring-cleaning (the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter)

scouring; scrub; scrubbing (the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water)

dry cleaning (the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water)

sweeping (the act of cleaning with a broom)

purge; purging (an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements)

purification (the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities)

sterilisation; sterilization (the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means))

sanitation; sanitisation; sanitization (making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing)

depilation; epilation (the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin))

bathing; washup (the act of washing yourself (or another person))

housecleaning (the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house)

Derivation:

clean up (make oneself clean, presentable or neat)