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housekeeping
[ hous-kee-ping ]
noun
- the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- the management of household affairs.
- the management, care, and servicing of property and equipment of an industrial or commercial building or organization.
- the ongoing routine, procedures, operations, and management of a commercial enterprise, government, organization, or the like.
- Computers. system tasks, as initialization and managing peripheral devices, that must be done to permit a computer program to execute properly but that do not directly contribute to program output.
housekeeping
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noun
- the running of a household
- money allocated for the running of a household
- organization and tidiness in general, as of an office, shop, etc
- the general maintenance of a computer storage system, including removal of obsolete files, documentation, security copying, etc
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of housekeeping1
Example Sentences
"Cleaning up, proofing or housekeeping. These are the top three things that we'd always recommend to everyone."
The couple and their three children, ages 12, 9 and 4, settled in southeast Washington, D.C., where they found jobs making food deliveries and doing housekeeping.
Proud of myself, I sat down to enjoy a treat: the macaron on the bedside table that housekeeping must have left in the room we were filming in.
People such as the family whose members lost their housekeeping jobs in the Palisades fire and whose apartment in Altadena burned in the Eaton fire.
Isabel, unmarried, priggish and devoted to her housekeeping routine, lives alone in her family’s home, ostensibly keeping it safe for the brother who inherited it.
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