Wiktionary
n. Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house. vb. (present participle of houseclean English)
WordNet
n. (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions; "more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms"; "many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners"
the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house; "efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time"
Usage examples of "housecleaning".
I must leave my readers to decide for themselves how I solve this part of my housecleaning problem.
During the day I work for a housecleaning company that sends out maids to rich houses.
Nationwide and even international cleaning services like Merry Maids, Molly Maids, and The Maids International, all of which have arisen since the seventies, now control 20-25 percent of the housecleaning business.
When I described the methods employed by The Maids to housecleaning expert Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts, she was incredulous.
However, the association between housecleaning and minority status is well established in the psyches of the white employing class.
Sometimes, though not always, I would throw in a few housecleaning jobs, citing as references former housemates and a friend in Key West whom I have at least helped with after-dinner cleanups now and then.
I am not sure, however, that I could have maintained the seven-day-a-week regimen month after month or eluded the kinds of injuries that afflicted my fellow workers in the housecleaning business.
And no matter how good the housecleaning you buy afterwards, some of that shit stays.
No matter how good the housecleaning you buy afterwards, some of that shit stays.
After a career as a commercial airline pilot, he and his wife had opened a housecleaning service.
A good housecleaning is what this place needs, along with a few hundred decapitations.
In some of those weeks, her 28 leftover hours will allow for one of those giant weekend housecleanings, while during other weeks entertaining friends will use up more of that time.
People like other real estate agents who have keys to the lockbox, and people who do any kind of service, like housecleaning or landscaping.
It looked to me like a good chance to get out from under the complete domination that the gypsies were exercising over us girls, so I offered to come twice a week and do his housecleaning.
My fallback during dry periods with the catering business was housecleaning, which paid a reliable eight bucks an hour.