housekeeper

noun

house·keep·er | \ ˈhau̇s-ˌkē-pər

Definition of housekeeper

1 : one employed to manage the domestic duties involved in maintaining a house

2 : a member of a household who manages the domestic duties of the household She was her father's housekeeper …— Lucy Maud Montgomery especially : one who keeps house in a specified way was always a good/poor housekeeper … a tidy housekeeper who kept flowers outside his unit … — Kyle Swenson

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Examples of housekeeper in a Sentence

the bachelor doctor could easily afford to hire a housekeeper to cook and clean

Recent Examples on the Web Satterfield spent more than two decades as a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family. — Amir Vera And Eric Levenson, CNN, 15 July 2022 Blanca Limon cleaned 11 rooms during a recent shift as a housekeeper at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square — emptying trash cans, making beds, cleaning bathrooms in one of the most expensive cities in the world — and earned exactly $3 in tips. — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022 The Netflix series, like the manga, will tell the story of Anzu Murata, a young woman who infiltrates the house of the wealthy Mitarai family as a housekeeper in order to reclaim the life that was taken from her. — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2022 For example, someone changing bed linens, such as a housekeeper, could become infected. — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022 His mother, a Guatemalan immigrant, worked as a housekeeper in La Jolla mansions. — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2022 Georgina Rodney came to Seward with a group of five J-1 visa workers from Jamaica to work as a housekeeper at the Seward Windsong Lodge. — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022 The wavy coif and puffy jowls of the father disguised as a matronly housekeeper. — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022 Also occupying a housekeeper’s residence on the property was the elderly Larry Lee, West’s secretary since 1929. — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022 See More

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