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