Dry Cleaning

Definition: Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning

Noun

1. The act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Archeological

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Dry Cleaning

Crosswords: Dry Cleaning

Richie loved to use 22s because the bullets are small and they don't come out the other end like a 45, see, a 45 will blow a barn door out the back of your head and there's a lot of dry cleaning involved, but a 22 will just rattle around like Pac-Man until you're dead. (My Blue Heaven; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Does this come out, from dry cleaning, or is it like gravy? (Love and Death; writing credit: Woody Allen)

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Books

• Dry Cleaning [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Dry Cleaning Industry (reference)

• How to Start & Manage a Dry Cleaning Business : Step by Step Guide to Starting & Managing Your Own Business (reference)

• Laundry and Dry Cleaning Services in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Nfpa 32 Standard for Dry Cleaning Plants 1996 Edition (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dry Cleaning (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dry Cleaning Ray (reference)

• Dry Cleaning Ray [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

However, the service sector (automotive services, dry cleaning, hairdressing, etc.) in France enjoys the fastest growth and the highest recruitment rate. Several new sectors in particular show good potential, such as real estate franchises, convenience stores, hair salons, fast food and theme restaurants. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

The most popular areas for franchisers are: apparel (18%), fast foods (16%), dry cleaning, hotels, and car rental services. (references)

Venezuela

Profanquicia reports that 35 percent of all franchises are fast food, 15 percent are clothing and the remainder represents a variety of services such as computer training and dry cleaning services. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Competition is particularly fierce between U.S. franchisers and local and third country competitors in the following sectors: car rental agencies, laundry and dry cleaning services, and auto maintenance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

pastrim i thatë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

химическо чистене. (various references)

Czech

chemické èištìní. (various references)

Danish

kemisk rensning i organiske opløsningsmidler, kemisk rensning (chemical cleaning). (various references)

Dutch

droogreinigen (chemical cleaning), stomen (autoclave, chemical cleaning), chemisch reinigen (chemical cleaning). (various references)

Finnish

kemiallinen pesu. (various references)

French

dégraissage, nettoyage chimique, nettoyage � sec (dry clean), épuration par voie sèche, épuration � sec. (various references)

German

Trockenreinigung, chemische Reinigung (dry cleaner). (various references)

Greek 

στεγνό καθάρισμα ρούχων (chemical cleaning), στεγνό καθάρισμα, χημικός καθαρισμός ρούχων (chemical cleaning). (various references)

Hungarian

vegytisztítás (french cleaning). (various references)

Italian

lavaggio chimico (chemical cleaning), lavaggio a secco. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ドミノ理論 (car rental agency, de Morgan, domain, domestic, domestic science, domino theory, draft, draft beer, drag, drag bunt, drag race, dragging, dragon, drama, dramatic, dramatist, drastic, dried sausage, drive, drive in, drive serve, drive-in bank, drive-in restaurant, drive-in theater, driver, drive-through, driveway, driving, driving club, driving contest, drugstore, drum, drum machine, drum solo, drummer, drumming, drum-set, dry, dry curry, dry cut, dry flower, dry gin, dry ice, dry martini, dry milk, dry paint, dry shampoo, dry shaving, dry skin, dry suit, dryer, drypoint, longest drive contest, road map, screwdriver, trip by car), 乾燥洗濯 , クラフト紙 (clan, cleaner, cleaning, cleek, club, club face, club head, club sandwich, clubhouse, crab, craft paper, cranberry, crank, cream, cream sauce, cream sundae, cream-filled roll, Creap, creek, creeping inflation, diseased persons, finish shooting, icecream soda, Kleene, laundry service, startfilming). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドライクリーニング , か�"そうせ�"たく, クリーニング (cleaning, laundry service). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

limpeza química (chemical cleaning), limpeza a seco. (various references)

Russian 

химическая чистка (dry-cleaners). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hemijsko čišćenje (cleaners, dry cleaner, dry-cleaners). (various references)

Spanish

limpieza en seco. (various references)

Swedish

kemtvätt, kemisk tvätt. (various references)

Turkish

kuru temizleme (cleaning). (various references)

Ukrainian

хімічна чистка. (various references)

Misspellings

"Dry Cleaning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drycleaning. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: declaring.

-3 letters: candling, candying, cleaning, clearing, cradling, crannied, cylinder, daringly, decaying, decrying, delaying, dragline, enlacing, glycerin, inlander, ladening, layering, learning, rancidly, readying, recaning, regnancy, relacing, relaying, yeanling, yearling, yearning.

-4 letters: acridly, aginner, aligned, aligner, aneling, anergic, angelic, angerly, anglice, angrily, annelid, ardency, cairned, candler, cannery, cannier, cannily, carding, carline, carling, cindery, clanged, clanger.