Crossword clues for housekeeping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Housekeeping \House"keep`ing\, n.
The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.
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Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [Obs.]
Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Ph[oe]be.
--Sir W. Scott.
Housekeeping \House"keep`ing\, a. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. the work of cleaning and running a house [syn: housework]
Wikipedia
Housekeeping refers to the management of duties and chores involved in the running of a household, such as cleaning, cooking, home maintenance, shopping, laundry and bill pay. These tasks may be performed by any of the household members, or by other persons hired to perform these tasks. The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use. By extension, an office or organization, as well as the maintenance of computer storage systems.
A housekeeper is a person employed to manage a household, and the domestic staff. According to the Victorian Era Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, the housekeeper is second in command in the house and "except in large establishments, where there is a house steward, the housekeeper must consider his/herself as the immediate representative of her mistress".
Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson. It was published in 1980, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (which Robinson would eventually win for her second novel, Gilead), and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing the book thus: "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women." Time magazine also included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill. Based on the 1980 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, the film is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho during the 1950s. After being abandoned by their mother and raised by elderly relatives, the sisters are looked after by their eccentric aunt whose unconventional and unpredictable ways affect their lives. Filmed on location in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, Housekeeping won two awards at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival.
"Housekeeping" is the 12th episode of the ninth season of the American crime drama television series NCIS, and the 198th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on January 3, 2012. The episode is written by Scott Williams and directed by Terrence O’Hara, and was seen by 19.81 million viewers.
The episode continues the plot between EJ Barrett, Casey Stratton and Tony DiNozzo, last seen in " Nature of the Beast".
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 cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence
- Janitor, a professional who takes care of institutional buildings
In technology:
- Housekeeping (computing), several types of maintenance routines or processes
- Maintenance, repair, and operations, or "housekeeping", in the context of spacecraft operations and other fields
In entertainment:
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Housekeeping (novel), a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson
- Housekeeping (film), a 1987 adaptation of the novel, starring Christine Lahti
- Housekeeping (2001 film), a short film by Janeane Garofalo
- "Housekeeping" (NCIS), an episode of NCIS
In biology:
- Housekeeping gene, a gene which maintains basic cellular functions
In computer programming, housekeeping can refer to either a standard entry or exit routine appended to a user-written block of code (such as a subroutine or function, sometimes known as a function prologue and epilogue) at its entry and exit or, alternatively, to any other automated or manual software process whereby a computer is cleaned up after usage (e.g. freeing resources such as virtual memory). This might include such activities as removing or archiving logs that the system has made as a result of the users activities, or deletion of temporary files which may otherwise simply take up space. Housekeeping can be described as a necessary chore, required to perform a particular computer's normal activity but not necessarily part of the algorithm. For cleaning up computer disk storage, utility software usually exists for this purpose such as data compression software - to "shrink" files and release disk space and defragmentation programs - to improve disk performance.
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.