cleaning lady

noun

variants or cleaning woman
: a woman whose job is to clean offices or houses

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This means that the rich can fly in an out to their exclusive island in Albania without meeting any Albanians, other than the cleaning lady. Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025 For example, there was a cleaning lady. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025 By 2000, Patricia and José’s son was 21 years old and had been given the name Guillermo Francisco Gómez by the parents who raised him: Francisco Gómez, an air force intelligence officer, and Teodora Jofre, a cleaning lady. Sam Gillette, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025 Titular strawberry picker Tita stands against the automation, enlisting a cleaning lady, construction worker and seamstress to fight back against the humanoids. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 July 2025 The Russian leader would be the cleaning lady who was overlooked and mistreated by the scientists in the good old days but who, uh, showed those silly male scientists who the real boss was when the zombies showed up. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025 In High Potential, Olson stars as Morgan, a single mother with an IQ of 160 working a cleaning lady at the Los Angeles Police Department who becomes a consultant for the LAPD’s Major Crimes division. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025 The opening scene is a beauty, as a cleaning lady tries to suck up a dust bunny and appears to be scared to death by what comes bursting out of the vacuum cleaner. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024 The cleaning lady identified him as one of the burglars, Rosenbaum said. Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024

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“Cleaning lady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleaning%20lady. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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