cleaner vs dry cleaner

cleaner

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

  • 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.) 

  • A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent. 

  • A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner. 

dry cleaner

noun
  • A person whose business is the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics. 

  • A business establishment that engages in the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics. 

How often have the words cleaner and dry cleaner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )