window cleaner

noun — 2 senses

window cleaner

noun
1

A person whose job is to clean windows.

  • In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025:
2

Any of various specific formulas of cleaner, usually cleaning fluid, for glass windows; many commonly encountered ones contain ammonia, and nonammoniacal types exist for various special purposes.

  • Near-synonyms: glass cleaner (usually coinstantial), Windex (a famous brand of such cleaners)
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