Janitor vs. Cleaner — What's the Difference?

A janitor (American English, Scottish English), custodian, porter, cleanser, cleaner or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings. Janitors' primary responsibility is as a cleaner.

A cleaner or a cleaning operative is a type of industrial or domestic worker who cleans homes or commercial premises for payment. Cleaning operatives may specialise in cleaning particular things or places, such as window cleaners.

One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building.

One whose work or business is cleaning.

A doorman or doorwoman.

A machine or substance used in cleaning.

Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.

Often cleaners A dry-cleaning establishment

(Scotland) A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles.

A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.

A doorman.

A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.

|sometimes|_|pejorative}} A moderator for a discussion forum.

A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent.

A door-keeper; a porter.

(in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner business. This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.

One who is employed to care for a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.; a caretaker; - the duties may include removal of trash, cleaning of the rooms and public areas, and minor repairs.

One who, or that which, cleans.

Someone employed to clean and maintain a building

A preparation used in cleaning something

The operator of dry-cleaning establishment

Someone whose occupation is cleaning