housecleaning

house·clean·ing  (housklnng)

n.

1. The cleaning and tidying of a house and its contents.

2. Informal Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement.

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houseclean v.

housecleaner n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	housecleaning - (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions; "more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms"; "many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners" reform - a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts" figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
	2.	housecleaning - the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house; "efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time" cleaning, cleansing, cleanup - the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"

Translations

housecleaning [ˈhaʊsˈkliːnɪŋ] N → limpieza f de la casa