square away

Questions about square away

What does square away mean?

square away means "put (things or places) in order".

What is another word for square away?

Close synonyms include tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is square away a common word?

square away 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.