housekeeping
Example Sentences
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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
"I'm including the housekeeping, the janitorial, the booking staff, the maintenance, as well as the consultants, the doctors, the nurses, physios and others," she added.
From BBC
The Post Oak was in the midst of a “pillow transition,” the assistant director of housekeeping explained apologetically—something luxury hotels do roughly every two years—so she wasn’t immediately sure which pillow I’d experienced.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
