clean sweep
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A complete or overwhelming victory, especially one in which all or almost all possible electoral contests are won.
noun
The winning, by a person or team, of all the possible possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc in a competition, season or series.
noun
A thorough change of policies, personnel or objects, removing or replacing all or almost all of that which existed previously.
Example Sentences
- "In November 1928, as the beneficiaries of this revulsion, the Liberals made a clean sweep of every seat on the borough council."
- "By 1991 his constituency had made a clean sweep of all twelve local council seats, that's in part to Nellist’s high-profile efforts."
- "George W. Bush made a clean sweep of the region once the dust had cleared from the Florida debacle more than a month after the election, adding 124 votes from elsewhere for a scrape-by total of 271 votes to claim the nation's highest office."
- "Scott Russell, who had sewn up the Yokohama 750cc Supersport championship earlier in the year, completed a clean sweep of the series races with his ninth victory in Miami."
- "He achieved a clean sweep winning four professional majors in a span of 294 days."
- "India made a clean sweep of medals in the boys’ under-12 and girls’ under 10 sections."