clean-up event
- noun
- /ˈkliːnˌʌp ɪˈvɛnt/
:
evento de limpieza
- Gallaudet's men's and women's cross country teams have great success with the community clean-up event.
Examples
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The community organized a clean-up event to remove trash from the local park.
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She volunteers every month for a neighborhood clean-up event to keep the streets tidy.
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Everyone is invited to join the clean-up event at the beach this Saturday.
Synonyms
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The activity of making a place or thing clean
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Work that removes dirt and rubbish from a place
An event where people meet to clean a park, street, or beach together
An organized day when local people pick up trash and improve their area
Antonyms
How Extensive
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
clean-up + event
The phrase is compositionally built from 'clean-up' (an act of cleaning) + 'event' (an occurrence), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer it refers to an event where cleaning takes place. However, the specific computing/IT sense (scheduled maintenance removing temp files, caches, logs) is a domain-specific extension not fully predictable from the general parts, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Clean-up event comes from the simple image of a clean-up: people meeting with bags and gloves to pick up litter from a park or beach. So, it means an organized activity to 'remove litter' and make a public place tidy.