1 to get a lot of money:
2 an act of removing harmful substances or chemicals from a place or the environment:
Over $100 million was allocated for the cleanup of hazardous chemicals and radioactive waste.
3 an act of improving a company or system by removing people and stopping activities that are dishonest or causing problems:
The cleanup involved foreclosing on thousands of problem loans and selling the properties that secured them.
The three tiers of monitoring provide a range of information necessary for the management of clean-up operations.
In 1997, some provinces ceased to process new applicants during the clean-up process and others defaulted on payments.
Given the large quantity of petroleum-contaminated soil present, remediation processes that can be carried out in situ are likely to be the preferable clean-up options.
With increasing public attention regarding the preservation of the environment, the development of oil clean-up technologies has gained considerable interest.
In the results section, the authors estimate the number of cases of childhood morbidity that could be averted in each pollution clean-up scenario.
This figure also shows a clean-up transducer which removes any violation markers from the eventual outputs.
Together, this information is used as the basis for trigger values to initiate remediation and target values to be achieved by clean-up.
During the 2000 clean-up, approximately 1 tonne of material was removed from the surface of the bottle dump.