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Management of domestic affairs
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housekeeping
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Word definitions for housekeeping in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the work of cleaning and running a house [syn: housework ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Housekeeping can refer to: In homes and buildings : Housekeeping , the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home Homemaking , a mainly American term for the management of a home Housekeeper (domestic worker) , an individual responsible for the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Housekeeping \House"keep`ing\, a. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE good ▪ However, those in the worst housing experience the greatest difficulty in meeting the norms of good housekeeping . ▪ It was true: she did have a reputation for good housekeeping . ▪ Medieval brewers alas ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning. 2 Any general tasks that involve preparation. 3 Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
Usage examples of housekeeping.
I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score.
Inside the office, Kapor excuses himself briefly to do a little mouse-whizzing housekeeping on his personal Macintosh IIfx.
Both heating and cooling apparatus could be installed in the shape of a motor to replace the punkah man and the present buzz-wheel fan, and to give fresh air without the opening of windows which leads to half our housekeeping miseries.
He smiled at her, liking her scented prettiness, glad that he would soon be away from her speckless housekeeping and her dangerous plants.
Caruso, a very pleasant lady of Irish extraction, was disposed to dwell on the difficulties of housekeeping in Washington in view of the increasing unpunctuality in the collection of the Federal revenue, but the President checked her, evidently considering these domestic matters a reflection upon the solvency of the nation.
I may as well break it to you now, as I had to do to Nevill when he invited me to come to Algiers and straighten out his housekeeping accounts: they play Ruth to my Naomi.
His charges were all around a shilling or two shillings and it was easy to see why he only just cleared the housekeeping.
It is better to be at the head of the commonalty than dragging in the rear of the gentry, and for substantial comfort, liberal housekeeping, generous almsgiving, and frank hospitality, the farmhouse of Allendale was out and out superior to the mansion of Moss Tower, where the Dalzells had lived for at least two centuries.
If women did the housekeeping and men the breadwinning in the ancient way, then surely the ants would relent.
In response, Hyacinth delved into her carpetbag and fetched forth a green clothbound book, the housekeeping journal sort.
Marilena was grateful Viv left her out of the heaviest part of the work of setting up housekeeping in the Cluj cottage.
The aunts in Jenkins were a little puzzled but two were headed off to work and the third, grinny Aunt Laine, who made a career out of housekeeping on Arbor Street, promised the wing above the kitchen for her.
Certainly the personal involvement of the Kohen Gadol in what was almost an act of housekeeping .
At Central people from the Housekeeping Department wash and make the beds but only after the nurses have stripped the bedding.
At Metropolitan nurses stripped the beds, Housekeeping washed the beds, then the nurses remade them.