clean·up

[kleen-uhp]
noun
1.
the act or process of cleaning up.
2.
Slang. a very large profit: The company made a real cleanup on their new invention.
3.
Baseball.
a.
the fourth position in the batting order: Our best home-run hitter is batting cleanup.
b.
the player who bats in this position.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase clean up

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cleanup
1889, "act of cleaning up," from clean + up. Meaning "a profit" is recorded from 1878. Verbal phrase clean up "make a large profit" is from 1929.
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Cleanup is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
For victims of cyber-slurs, cleanup doesn't necessarily mean removing bad press.
The total cleanup is expected to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The total cleanup cost to the taxpayers, in today's dollars, was nearly two
  hundred billion.
The toughest part of having a debt party is the cleanup in the morning,
  especially with a hangover.
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