WordNet
n. a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning lady, woman]
Usage examples of "cleaning woman".
God damn cleaning woman picks up the phone so I pay for the call, way they do things down there Senator's out of town so his whole staff's pulled out by what time is it, car coming for me any minute look what did he say.
Rachel's initial wariness of Mark disappeared as she watched him carry furniture and wash windows, and listened to him exchange friendly insults with Alice, Cheryl's cleaning woman.
We usually leave that door open for the cleaning woman and the visiting nurse.
Flash of midday, nurses, a cleaning woman pushing a tired vacuum, someone complaining, ceaselessly, a whine.
There was a cleaning woman, an old black woman, coming out of the room next door.
But he'd had to kill the cleaning woman, just as he'd done in Washington, in order to give him more time to distance himself from the killing.
It was a stranger, a womana cleaning woman, judging by the bandanna on her head and the mop and bucket in her hand.