dry cleaning

1. 1.

   the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water

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Questions about dry cleaning

What does dry cleaning mean?

dry cleaning means "the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water".

Is dry cleaning a common word?

dry cleaning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.