Usually means: Remove unwanted items or personnel.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word clean house:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. clean house: Merriam-Webster
  2. clean house: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clean house: Vocabulary.com
  4. clean house: Wiktionary
  5. clean house: Dictionary.com
  6. Clean House, The Clean House: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. clean house: Rhymezone
  8. clean house: FreeDictionary.org
  9. clean house: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. clean house: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean house: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean house: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clean house: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (clean house)

verb:  (intransitive, literally) To clean the interior of a house.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To reform a workplace, organization, etc. by removing undesirable personnel or procedures.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To win overwhelmingly.

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