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 housecleaning ['hauskli:niŋ添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 清扫房屋, 肃清, 革除



    housecleaning
    [ noun ]
    1. (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions

    2. <noun.act>
      more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms
      many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners
    3. the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house

    4. <noun.act>
      efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time


    1. Instead, they described it has a housecleaning measure agreed upon after Presser underwent a heart bypass operation in late 1983 to assure that control of the union remained with officials at its international headquarters in Washington.
    2. "On the other hand," he said, "an optimist could say the company is doing housecleaning for an eventual restructuring."
    3. They know their efforts could be wiped out by the liquidation of their company or a housecleaning by a new owner, but a group of Eastern employees is keeping up a skeleton operation at the strikebound carrier.
    4. Problem assets soared 9.5% to $4.38 billion from $4.0 billion, and net credit losses in the just-ended quarter were $549 million, which means that loan losses totaling $926 million were taken or provided for in the period's housecleaning.
    5. Exxon Corp. continued its year-end housecleaning with the sale of its nuclear-fuel operations to a unit of Siemens AG of West Germany.
    6. Look for House Members to consider their own housecleaning of Congress's leadership next January.
    7. While the changes fell short of the housecleaning some analysts believe is necessary at New York Telephone, they were viewed as a positive step.
    8. President Chun's housecleaning of his cabinet last month in the wake of the torture-death of a student demonstrator in police custody indicates that the government realizes it must be more accommodating to public sentiment.
    9. "There would have to be a housecleaning of people that had let Ronnie down," Mr. Regan told the committees in a deposition read aloud yesterday.
    10. KHD's housecleaning, which dominated the company's 1988 business year, has included the following: Divestitures: Last year KHD gained 192 million marks from property sales and the discovery of hidden reserves at its Spanish units.
    11. Despite a housecleaning at the top, Mikhail says, the KGB spy bureaucracy lives on and has simply moved inside the Russian government.
    12. "The implication is that anything less than full cooperation and a housecleaning may lead to criminal prosecution.
    13. But the women's voices we've heard in the past two or three years have more to do with housecleaning (in the broadest and most liberating sense of that word).
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