dishwash

present singular third person dishwashes · participle present dishwashing · participle past dishwashed · past dishwashed

1. intransitiveTo wash dishes and other dishware.

   As a transition measure, the trustees gave Smitty the assignment to cook breakfast on Saturday mornings; at times I dishwashed for him.

   2012, Bruce Ross, From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight, page 83

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   The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

   2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M

2. transitiveTo wash in a dishwasher.

   Who knows how many times the cup has been dishwashed

   2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN

1. attributiveuncountableThe washing of dishes.

   Vim is the market leader in the dishwash category.

   2004, S. L. Gupta, Marketing Research, page 524

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   There is, in practice, a little more creative freedom with the dishwash powders just referred to and multisurface cleaners containing a maximum of 1% available chlorine. However, this clearly needs to be determined from base to base.

   2008, Uri Zoller, Handbook of Detergents, page 717

2. uncountableDishwater.