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SQUARE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does square away mean? 

SQUARE AWAY (verb)
  The verb SQUARE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. put (things or places) in orderplay

  Familiarity information: SQUARE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SQUARE AWAY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Put (things or places) in order

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up

Context example:

Tidy up your room!

Hypernyms (to "square away" is one way to...):

order (bring order to or into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "square away"):

make; make up (put in order or neaten)

clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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