cleanup

nettoyage

Travail consistant à enlever d’un lieu la saleté, les déchets ou les substances nocives.

En anglais simple : The work of removing dirt, rubbish, or harmful substances from a place.

• The park needs a cleanup.
• Volunteers joined the beach cleanup on Saturday.
• The oil spill cleanup took several months.

Comment l'utiliser : cleanup of something (Volunteers helped with the cleanup of the river.)

Synonymes : cleaning, tidying

Expressions courantes : beach cleanup, cleanup operation, environmental cleanup

finition, finalisation

Travail qui consiste à terminer les petites tâches restantes à la fin d’un ouvrage.

En anglais simple : The work of finishing the remaining small tasks at the end of a job.

• Only the final cleanup remains.
• The project's cleanup phase took another week.
• We assigned the cleanup of unfinished tasks to one team.

Synonymes : finishing touches, completion

Expressions courantes : final cleanup, project cleanup, cleanup phase

quatrième position au bâton

Quatrième place dans l’ordre de passage au bâton d’une équipe de baseball, généralement confiée à un frappeur puissant.

En anglais simple : The fourth position in a baseball team's batting order, usually given to a strong hitter.

• Jones bats cleanup tonight.
• The coach moved her into the cleanup spot.
• Our cleanup hitter drove in three runs.

Comment l'utiliser : bat cleanup (Their strongest hitter bats cleanup.)

Synonymes : fourth batting position

Expressions courantes : bat cleanup, cleanup hitter, cleanup spot