"vacuum clean"

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29 Aug 2016, 6:50 pm

Do you ever use a verb "vacuum clean"? I've seen it in some dictionaries. While I use "vacuum cleaner" and "vacuum" interchangeably for the appliance, I would only ever use "vacuum" as a verb, never "vacuum clean".

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30 Aug 2016, 9:58 pm

I agree. I've worked as a custodian & I never 1ce used vacuum clean as a noun. I have said I was going to vacuum things clean before.

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30 Aug 2016, 10:48 pm

Nope! During my time cleaning I always said "use the vacuum" or on a rare occasion used "vacuum" as a verb.

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31 Aug 2016, 8:45 pm

I use vacuum as a verb but not vacuum clean.

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