window cleaner

plural window cleaners · alternative window-cleaner

1. A person whose job is to clean windows.

   In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.

   2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025

   Synonyms: window washer

2. Any of various specific formulas of cleaner, usually cleaning fluid, for glass windows; many commonly encountered ones contain ammonia, and nonammoniacal types exist for various special purposes.

   Near-synonyms: glass cleaner (usually coinstantial), Windex (a famous brand of such cleaners)

   Synonyms: glass cleaner, Windex