DRY CLEANING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry cleaning mean? 

• DRY CLEANING (noun)
  The noun DRY CLEANING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DRY CLEANING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY CLEANING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dry cleaning" is a kind of...):

cleaning; cleansing; cleanup (the act of making something clean)

Derivation:

dry clean (clean with chemical agents)

 Context examples 

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), which was once used in applications such as dry cleaning and as a fire-extinguishing agent, was regulated in 1987 under the Montreal Protocol along with other chlorofluorocarbons that destroy ozone and contribute to the ozone hole over Antarctica.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)