window cleaner

• window-cleaner

window cleaner (plural window cleaners)

2. A person whose job is to clean windows.

   Synonym: window washer

   Hypernym: cleaner

   • 2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 September 2025:

     In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.

4. Any of various specific formulas of cleaner, usually cleaning fluid, for glass windows; many commonly encountered ones contain ammonia, and nonammoniacal types exist for various special purposes.

   Hypernyms: cleaner, cleaning fluid < substance, stuff

   Coordinate term: all-purpose cleaner

   Near-synonyms: glass cleaner (usually coinstantial), Windex (a famous brand of such cleaners)