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housekeeping

[hous-kee-ping] / ˈhaʊsˌki pɪŋ /
NOUN
household management
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They’re buying apartments and workplaces, Ikea furniture and dishes, and providing housekeeping for their teenage and 20-something founders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The price-target bump was a necessary bit of housekeeping after Rocket Lab’s big month.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

We also have a housekeeping note: The Surge will be going on hiatus after this week, likely through the end of the year.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2025

In the most recent figures, for 2023-24, the biggest items were property maintenance and staff payroll, with smaller amounts for travel and hospitality and housekeeping.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

So while Osage boys at other institutions learned farming and carpentry, Mollie was trained in the “domestic arts”: sewing, baking, laundering, and housekeeping.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann