dry cleaner

See also: drycleaner and dry-cleaner

English

Alternative forms

• dry cleaner's (most common in speech, increasingly spelled dry cleaners without apostrophe even in official usage, especially in UK English, though this is grammatically incorrect because it's not plural)
• drycleaner
• dry-cleaner

Noun

dry cleaner (plural dry cleaners)

1. A person whose business is the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.
2. A business establishment that engages in the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.

Translations

person whose business is dry cleaning

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾洗工／干洗工 (gānxǐgōng)

• Finnish: kuivapesijä
• German: Textilreiniger m, Textilreinigerin f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kuru temizlemeci (tr), kuru temizleyici (tr)

business establishment that engages in dry cleaning

• Arabic: مُنَظِّف جَافّ m (munaẓẓif jāff), مَصْبَنَة f (maṣbana)

  Moroccan Arabic: مصبنة f (maṣbana)

• Belarusian: хімчы́стка f (ximčýstka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾洗店／干洗店 (zh) (gānxǐdiàn)

• Finnish: kuivapesula
• French: teinturier (fr) m, pressing (fr) m
• Galician: tinturaría (gl) f
• German: Reinigung (de) f, chemische Reinigung f, Putzerei (de) f (Austrian)
• Greek: στεγνοκαθαριστήριο (el) (stegnokatharistírio)
• Hungarian: vegytisztító (hu), ruhatisztító (hu), patyolat (hu)
• Italian: tintoria (it) f
• Japanese: クリーニング (ja) (kurīningu), クリーニング店 (クリーニングてん, kurīningu ten)
• Korean: 세탁소(洗濯所) (ko) (setakso)
• Persian: خشک‌شویی (fa) (xošk-šuyi)
• Romanian: curățătorie (ro) f, spălătorie (ro) f
• Russian: химчи́стка (ru) f (ximčístka)
• Spanish: tintorería (es) f
• Turkish: kuru temizleme (tr), kuru temizlemeci (tr)
• Ukrainian: хімчи́стка f (ximčýstka)