dry cleaning

See also: drycleaning and dry-cleaning

English

Noun

dry cleaning (uncountable)

1. The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using organic solvents and specialized equipment.
2. Clothing or other items that will undergo, or have undergone, this kind of cleaning.

   When you're in town, could you pick up the dry cleaning?

Alternative forms

• drycleaning
• dry-cleaning

Descendants

• → Japanese: ドライクリーニング (dorai kurīningu)
• → Korean: 드라이 클리닝 (deurai keullining)

Translations

process of cleaning without water

• Arabic: تَنْظِيف جَافّ m (tanẓīf jāff)
• Armenian: քիմմաքրում (hy) (kʻimmakʻrum)
• Belarusian: хімчы́стка f (ximčýstka)
• Bulgarian: хими́ческо чи́стене n (himíčesko čístene)
• Catalan: neteja en sec f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾洗 / 干洗 (zh) (gānxǐ)

• Dutch: stomen (nl), ^{(please verify)} droogkuis (nl) m (Belgium)
• Finnish: kuivapesu (fi)
• French: nettoyage à sec (fr) m
• German: Trockenreinigung f, chemische Reinigung f
• Greek: στεγνό καθάρισμα (stegnó kathárisma)
• Hindi: सूखी धुलाई f (sūkhī dhulāī)
• Icelandic: fatahreinsun (is) f
• Irish: tirimghlanadh m
• Italian: lavaggio a secco m
• Japanese: クリーニング (ja) (kurīningu), 乾燥洗濯 (かんそうせんたく, kansō sentaku), ドライクリーニング (dorai kurīningu)
• Korean: 드라이 클리닝 (deurai keullining), 클리닝 (keullining)
• Malay: pencucian kering
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хими цэвэрлэгээ (ximi ceverlegee)

• Persian: خشک‌شویی (fa) (xošk-šuyi)
• Portuguese: lavagem a seco f
• Romanian: curățătorie uscată f
• Russian: хими́ческая чи́стка (ru) f (ximíčeskaja čístka), химчи́стка (ru) f (ximčístka)
• Spanish: limpieza en seco f, lavado en seco m
• Swedish: kemtvätt (sv) c
• Tajik: хушкшӯӣ (xuškšüi)
• Turkish: kuru temizleme (tr)
• Ukrainian: хімчи́стка f (ximčýstka)
• Welsh: sych-lanhau m

Verb

dry cleaning

1. present participle and gerund of dry clean

Alternative forms

• drycleaning
• dry-cleaning