as in maids
a female domestic servant
they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home
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Recent Examples of housekeepers
The best bit for the housekeepers?
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Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
For example, housekeepers typically don't make as much as janitors.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Things get serious when one of Tom’s housekeepers is swept up in the military dictatorship.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Many are the children of immigrants who work or worked as nannies, caregivers to the elderly, housekeepers and gardeners.
—Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
The concierge team even went as far as scheduling vaccine appointments for residents, their extended families and visitors, including nurses and housekeepers.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
This situation also touches on what is and isn't acceptable to expect from housekeepers.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
For example, housekeepers typically don't make as much as janitors.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Things get serious when one of Tom’s housekeepers is swept up in the military dictatorship.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Many are the children of immigrants who work or worked as nannies, caregivers to the elderly, housekeepers and gardeners.
—Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
The concierge team even went as far as scheduling vaccine appointments for residents, their extended families and visitors, including nurses and housekeepers.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
This situation also touches on what is and isn't acceptable to expect from housekeepers.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housekeepers
maids
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Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Housekeepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housekeepers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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