Usually means: Debris collected from cleaning floors.
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  1. sweepings: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweepings: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweepings: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sweepings: Vocabulary.com
  5. sweepings: Wordnik
  6. sweepings: Wiktionary
  7. sweepings: Dictionary.com
  8. Sweepings: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Sweepings: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. sweepings: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Sweepings: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sweepings: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. sweepings: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sweepings: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Material that is swept up.

Similar:
moving, wholesale, extensive, wide, broad, far-reaching, comprehensive, indiscriminate, sweepage, outsweeping, more...

Opposite:
gatherings, collection, assemblage, accumulation

Phrases:
floor sweepings, more...



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Similar:
moving, wholesale, extensive, wide, broad, far-reaching, comprehensive, indiscriminate, sweepage, outsweeping, more...

Opposite:
gatherings, collection, assemblage, accumulation

Phrases:
floor sweepings, more...



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