tidy up

Questions about tidy up

What does tidy up mean?

tidy up means "put (things or places) in order".

What is another word for tidy up?

Close synonyms include tidy, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out. 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 tidy up a common word?

tidy up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.