HOUSEKEEPING Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of housekeeping

as in approach

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verb

present participle of housekeep

as in housecleaning

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Noun

Room assignments and housekeeping blocks are often finalized hours before check-in, so a request made the night before tends to have far better odds than one made at the counter. — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026 There are some obvious housekeeping choices for managers. — Andy Jones, New York Times, 24 June 2026 The May 27 show's cancellation came a day before housekeeping reportedly found more than $16,000 worth of damage to Zimmerman's hotel room. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026 But according to court documents, housekeeping discovered the artist's room in disarray the following day – with the hotel estimating the damage at roughly $16,000. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for housekeeping

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Noun

While some states allow residents to package sharps in secure containers and throw them away in household trash, Massachusetts takes a different approach.

— Irina Butler, Boston Herald, 10 July 2026
The back-and-forth was a continuation of the approach Rutte, a seasoned diplomat known as a consensus builder during his nearly 14 years as Dutch prime minister, has taken since becoming NATO chief in late 2024.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of approach

Noun

Airflow heats the barrel, and dries the hair while curling it in a process that uses 40 percent less energy than hair-dryer and brush methods.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
The platform uses advanced grid modelling to track unused transmission capacity that has remained inaccessible with traditional planning methods.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

Definition of method

Noun

Their sustained success isn't just a golden generation, but the culmination of a two-decade-long federation strategy.

— Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
While the early successes in the group stage had casual fans buzzing about a trip to the July 19 final—which, come on already—the sales teams at Fox and Telemundo weren’t gaming out long-range strategies for either the USMNT or Mexico.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of strategy

Noun

After Canada suffered its most deadly shooting in Nova Scotia in 2020, where 22 people were killed, the government put in place major reforms and bans on assault-style weapons.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
England plays with a faster and sometimes more direct style and has been carried by Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham, who each have six goals.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of style

Noun

Morocco had more talent than Paraguay, more menacing technique and tactics, and, presumably, could mount more dangerous counterattacks.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
Holograms replace layers The printing process is based on photolithography, a manufacturing technique widely used to fabricate semiconductor chips.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

Definition of technique

Noun

In the 19-page complaint, obtained by Rolling Stone, Morake argued that Jonasi had presented the translation as fact during a conversational podcast rather than as part of a stand-up routine.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026
Still, regaining their routines does not mean their fears simply disappear.

— Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

Definition of routine

Noun

Some analysts took a different tack, with one focusing on the changing mindset of investors when explaining bitcoin’s latest gains.

— Charles Lloyd Bovaird II, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Still, the opposite tack—sanctions and isolation—has neither made the Iranian regime weaker nor made its behavior better.

— Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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