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sanitation worker; garbage collector; refuse collector; street cleaner

electric vacuum cleaner

chimney sweep; chimney sweeper

overhaul; taking apart and cleaning

to sweep away; to sweep out

garbage processing plant; waste incineration plant

vacuum cleaner

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

newly swept (room, etc.)

Common noun

gathering silkworms from the egg paper

street sweeper (person)

Yaeyama class minesweeper

Computing

file clean-up

chimney sweep; chimney sweeper

road sweeping machine

robotic vacuum cleaner; robovac; Roomba

special cleaning and disinfection (esp. after an accident or death); biohazard cleanup; crime scene cleanup

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

to hurriedly prepare one's home for guests; to clean one's garden with a mallet

Rare term

first house-cleaning of the year (on January 2); first sweeping

cleaner; janitor

Archaic

night soil gatherer