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as in to tidy (up)
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff you're expected to clean up after you use the workroom

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With rescue and cleanup efforts still front of mind in the Tampa Bay region, the city of St. Petersburg is a long way from making any decisions on how to fix the tattered stadium, officials said Friday. NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024 So either the Legislature has to come in with a cleanup that includes money (cue the laugh track). Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024 Those novel materials, which have many potential uses — from helping people with disabilities to better grab objects to creating robots to assist in underwater cleanup — are presented in an Advanced Science report. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024 However, that bill didn't include additional dollars for FEMA or the Small Business Administration, which the White House and Congressional Democrats had asked for to help with long-term cleanup efforts from other disasters, like the wildfires that devastated Maui last year. Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clean (up) 

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“Clean (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean%20%28up%29. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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