"dry cleaner" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dry cleaners [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dry cleaner (plural dry cleaners)
  1. A person whose business is the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: dry cleaner's (english: most common in speech, increasingly spelled dry cleaners without apostrophe even in official usage, especially in UK English, though this is grammatically incorrect because it's not plural), drycleaner, dry-cleaner Translations (person whose business is dry cleaning): 乾洗工 (Chinese Mandarin), 干洗工 (gānxǐgōng) (Chinese Mandarin), kuivapesijä (Finnish), Textilreiniger [masculine] (German), Textilreinigerin [feminine] (German), kuru temizlemeci (Turkish), kuru temizleyici (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-dry_cleaner-en-noun-ncN2NAYf Disambiguation of Occupations: 91 9 Disambiguation of People: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'person whose business is dry cleaning': 65 35
  2. A business establishment that engages in the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics. Translations (business establishment that engages in dry cleaning): مُنَظِّف جَافّ (munaẓẓif jāff) [masculine] (Arabic), مَصْبَنَة (maṣbana) [feminine] (Arabic), مصبنة (maṣbana) [Moroccan-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), хімчы́стка (ximčýstka) [feminine] (Belarusian), 乾洗店 (Chinese Mandarin), 干洗店 (gānxǐdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), kuivapesula (Finnish), teinturier [masculine] (French), pressing [masculine] (French), tinturaría [feminine] (Galician), Reinigung [feminine] (German), chemische Reinigung [feminine] (German), Putzerei [Austrian, feminine] (German), στεγνοκαθαριστήριο (stegnokatharistírio) (Greek), vegytisztító (Hungarian), ruhatisztító (Hungarian), patyolat (Hungarian), tintoria [feminine] (Italian), クリーニング (kurīningu) (Japanese), クリーニング店 (kurīningu ten) (alt: クリーニングてん) (Japanese), 세탁소 (setakso) (alt: 洗濯所) (Korean), خشکشویی (xošk-šuyi) (Persian), curățătorie [feminine] (Romanian), spălătorie [feminine] (Romanian), химчи́стка (ximčístka) [feminine] (Russian), tintorería [feminine] (Spanish), kuru temizleme (Turkish), kuru temizlemeci (Turkish), хімчи́стка (ximčýstka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dry_cleaner-en-noun-xtCUuElU Disambiguation of 'business establishment that engages in dry cleaning': 35 65

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  "word": "dry cleaner"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.