cleaners

See also: cleaner's

English

Noun

cleaners

1. plural of cleaner

Noun

cleaners

1. A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)

Derived terms

• take to the cleaners

Anagrams

• cleanser, recleans, sclarene