Term: housecleaning: (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions
Candidate hypernym: reform: a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses → 1
Candidate hypernym: champerty: an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded → 0
Candidate hypernym: weber's law: (psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus → 0
Candidate hypernym: drogue parachute: a small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack → 0
Candidate hypernym: maillot: a woman's one-piece bathing suit → 0
Candidate hypernym: heracleum: widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: otter: freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur → 0
Candidate hypernym: thymelaeaceae: family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: zeitgeist: the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation → 0
Candidate hypernym: waxwork: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax → 0
Candidate hypernym: aspen: any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind → 0