housekeeping
Example Sentences
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In Rochester, Father set up a blacksmith shop and Mother set up housekeeping.
From Literature
But what does this really mean for Charu, who is obliged by the death of her mother to take up the housekeeping?
We marvel at what 50-somethings get done during a workweek, and we recall with incredulity how much we accomplished daily while working and child-rearing and housekeeping and traveling and negotiating the city.
“My friend Paul was corresponding with your dad on my behalf about the housekeeping position? And our…special circumstances?”
From Literature
The price-target bump was a necessary bit of housekeeping after Rocket Lab’s big month.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
