window cleaner

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meaningsofwindowandcleaner

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withwindow.
window
noun
uk
/ˈwɪn.dəʊ/us
/ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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cleaner
noun
uk
/ˈkliː.nər/us
/ˈkliː.nɚ/
a person whose job is to clean houses, offices, public ...
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(Definition ofwindowandcleanerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwindow cleaner

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It is absurd that awindowcleanercan have a self-employed pension but a professor cannot.
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Understandably, thewindowcleanerwas in a state of shock and in acute pain and distress.
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Do you have to show that you are a skilledwindowcleanerto get a licence?
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Outside the private clinic, awindowcleanerfell three floors to the ground below.
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Equally, it is difficult to get awindowcleaner.
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The words are, "being employed as awindowcleaner".
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To be employed as awindowcleanerall one has to do is to clean windows.
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There is nothing to say that thewindowcleanermust exhibit his licence.
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He said that he was awindowcleaner.
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A constituent set himself up as awindowcleanera few years ago.
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That person is being employed as awindowcleaner.
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Awindowcleanerof some considerable ability recently offered me his services.
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He engages awindowcleanerto clean his windows, and he fails to notice that, in removing the window one day to replace it, he has not adequately secured it.
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If you are going to burgle a house the one thing you do not do is to make yourself conspicuous by first of all posing as awindowcleaner.
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Although awindowcleanerhas to exhibit his licence under subsection (2), under subsection (4) an authorised officer does not have to exhibit his authorisation.
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It is only when some constable, or some person in authority or somebody else asks to see it that thewindowcleanermust exhibit it.
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I think that originally the provision was too elaborate in regard to why awindowcleaner(apart from anybody else) should have to exhibit.
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This industry has lost 100,000 people, and we in this country are living an existence more dangerous than that of a one-armedwindowcleaner.
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